We would like to thank Rebecca Maria Hasler and her colleagues [1] for their interest in our report [2] and seize the opportunity to congratulate them on their publication [3] as a valuable contribution to the development of trauma care in Switzerland. Indeed, a comparison of your TARN-based data and our independent registry is of great interest. Our trauma database has been conceived to be ful...

addiction is a phenomenon that causes structural changes in different systems of society. studies show for planning of addiction prevention and treatment, it is necessary to create an information management system. substance dependence information systems refer to systems which collect, analyse and report data related to substance dependence information. the aim of this study was to identify ad...

Trauma care is evolving throughout the world to meet demand resulting from rapidly increasing rates of mortality and morbidity related external injuries. The State Major Service was designated Royal Perth Hospital in 2004 provide comprehensive for trauma patients Western Australia (WA), which largest state by area country. Unit, established 2008, functions as a level I center admits over 1,000 ...

this study was undertaken to define the epidemiological aspects of thyroid carcinoma in iran, an area of endemic iodine deficiency nearly until recently. the tehran cancer institute data system registry (tcidsr) was used to identify patients with different histological types of thyroid cancer (tc) in iran. data were analyzed from 438 thyroid cancer cases identified by the tcidsr in 1998-99. dis...

BACKGROUND We established a trauma registry in 2003 to collect data on trauma patients, which is a major cause of death in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The aim of this paper is to report on the long term effects of our early analysis of this registry. METHODS Data in the early stages of this trauma registry were collected for 503 patients during a period of 6 months in 2003. Data was colle...

BACKGROUND Medical lessons learned from Vietnam and previous military conflicts led to the development of civilian trauma systems in the United States. Operation Iraqi Freedom represents the first protracted, large-scale, armed conflict since the advent of civilian trauma systems in which to evaluate a similar paradigm on the battlefield. METHODS Collaborative efforts between the joint milita...

Care by Gräsner and colleagues that strongly emphasizes the importance of encouraging attempts at cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in cardiac arrest caused by severe trauma [1]. Despite the interesting content, in our opinion the results presented by Gräsner and colleagues suff er by being derived from databases designed for diff erent purposes (Cardiac Arrest Registry and Trauma Registry). ...

background: safety of blood products and plasma derivates is one of main concerns in transfusion sector. screening of donated blood became an emerging item to large extent because of hepatitis c and b virus, (hcv, hbv) and hiv epidemics especially in blood donation campaign following disasters. in this study we aim to evaluate the pattern of variation of viral infection markers donated at three...