background: many of the multiple traumatized patients who refer to the hospital need transfusion. transfusion-related acute lung injury (trali) is a serious clinical syndrome associated with the transfusion of plasma-containing blood components. in the article, we present a case of trali following transfusion of packed red blood cells case presentation: a 24 year old male referred to shahid beh...

background: trauma is a major healthcare challenge worldwide. in developing countries, most road deaths happen during the pre-hospital phase; consequently, pre-hospital trauma care has received considerable attention during the past decades. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the quality of pre-hospital oxygen therapy in patients with multiple trauma. patients and methods: thi...

introduction: the administration of crystalloid fluids is considered as the first line treatment in management of trauma patients. infusion of intravenous fluids leads to various changes in hemodynamic, metabolic and coagulation profiles of these patients. the present study attempted to survey some of these changes in patients with mild severity trauma following normal saline infusion. methods:...

conclusions this new suggested scale shows a better value to predict patients’ length of hospital stay compared to iss and niss. however, future studies with larger sample sizes and more confounding factors such as prehospital procedures, intubation and other procedures during admission, should be designed to examine these scoring systems and confirm the results of our study. background trauma ...

conclusions many factors, such as gender, age, education, type of trauma, and location of injured organ, may predict adl following limb trauma. background traumatic injuries in the elderly often lead to permanent disabilities and long-term treatments that can adversely influence their activities of daily of living (adl). the effect on adl is an important outcome in elderly trauma. objectives th...

introduction: to date, many prognostic models have been proposed to predict the outcome of patients with traumatic brain injuries. external validation of these models in different populations is of great importance for their generalization. the present study was designed, aiming to determine the value of crash prognostic model in prediction of 14-day mortality (14-dm) and 6-month unfavorable ou...