After the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide, we will sooner or later encounter trauma patients with COVID-19 in thedeveloping countries. It is a challenging decision-making process for an orthopedic surgeon to provide the patients withthe best practice in the crisis. Here we discuss the issue in terms of clinical severity of COVID-19 pneumonia, priorityof orthopedic surgical trauma ...

HYPOTHESIS The mechanism by which trauma systems improve mortality is unknown. Outcomes may be influenced by experienced trauma surgeons treating more patients (surgeon effect) or improving the overall system of care (system effect). We hypothesized that mortality is lower in patients treated by a fellowship-trained senior trauma program director (experienced) vs first-year general surgery atte...

 T. O. White, FRCSEd(Tr&Orth), MD, FFTEd, Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon  S. P. Mackenzie, MBChB, BSc MedSci (Hons), MRCS, Specialty Registrar  T. H. Carter, BSc(Hons), MBChB, MRCS(Ed), Specialty Registrar  O. R. Prescott, BSC BMBS PGCert, Foundation Doctor  A. D. Duckworth, BSc(Hons), MBChB, MSc, FRCSEd(Tr&Orth), PhD, Specialty Registrar  J. F. Keating, MPhil, FRCSEd(Tr&Orth), Con...

Cardiac laceration from blunt thoracic trauma is not a common presentation. The rate of mortality due to this injury is very high since it is not diagnosed and treated immediately. In this study, we present the case of a 65-year-old man with blunt cardiac trauma, causing right atrial rupture and pericardial tamponade. Successful management of this patient was firstly done with initial pericardi...

Alexey Georgievich Baindurashvili, MD, PhD, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Full member the Russian Academy Sciences, President H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Childrens Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, laureate Federation Government Prize, Honored Federation, Chief Pediatric orthopedic trauma surgeon St. Petersburg, celebrates his 75th anniversary.

There is a general decline in penetrating abdominal trauma throughout the western world. As a result of that, there is a significant loss of expertise in dealing with this type of injury particularly when the patient presents to theatre with physiological instability. A significant percentage of these patients will not be operated by a trauma surgeon but, by the "occasional trauma surgeon", who...

INTRODUCTION Facial trauma is a common injury in the urban setting. Many studies have been published on the epidemiology and treatment of facial fractures, but few of them conducted in emergencies hospital as ours. The purpose of this study was to present theory and practice in surgical treatment of midface trauma. MATERIALS AND METHOD We will present a retrospective study and a cases series ...