Objective: to evaluate the incidence of unfavorable outcomes in vascular trauma patients and their possible correlation to the distance between the city where the injury was sustained and the hospital where the patient received definitive treatment. Methods: descriptive and retrospective study. Data were collected from medical records of patients submitted to surgical procedures for arterial or...

Patients with major injuries to the upper limbs sometimes fail to achieve successful limb salvage. During the attempt to fashion a functional limb, multiple painful procedures may be ventured. Despite the best efforts of surgeons and therapists, a nonfunctioning or painful upper limb may remain in place for many months or years before late delayed amputation and progression to productive rehabi...

Trauma to the upper limb is extremely common. Many of these patients present for surgery and anaesthesia as an emergency case, often complicated by other injuries and requiring effective perioperative analgesia. Although the use of regional anaesthesia for elective upper limb surgery has greatly increased, there is a lack of readily available information on the use and potential benefits of reg...

popliteal artery injuries are mainly seen in military experience. this study was undertaken in a civilian vascular surgical unit with a large trauma workload dealing with traffic accidents. a retrospective review of patients treated between 1995 and 2001 was undertaken. 145 cases of popliteal artery injuries were treated. these cases included 46.89% compound and lacerated injuries due to traffi...

There is currently little knowledge of the loading patterns of the bones and muscles of the shoulder girdle. Despite the existence of complex upper limb models, they have only recently been used to study the loading of the joints during tasks of daily living. Studying activities of daily living is vital in understanding the range of kinematics, load bearing and stability required of the upper l...

Lower limb fractures are common injuries in prehospital care. Untreated fractures can lead to hypovolaemic shock especially if open, and should be treated with effective haemorrhage control and splintage. A brief assessment for open fractures, deformity, and neurovascular compromise should be followed by effective analgesia, wound management, reduction (if needed), splintage, and packaging of t...

Lower limb fractures are common injuries in prehospital care. Untreated fractures can lead to hypovolaemic shock especially if open, and should be treated with effective haemorrhage control and splintage. A brief assessment for open fractures, deformity, and neurovascular compromise should be followed by effective analgesia, wound management, reduction (if needed), splintage, and packaging of t...

BACKGROUND Exercise-based training programmes are commonly used to prevent sports injuries but programme effectiveness within community men's team sport is largely unknown. OBJECTIVE To present the intention-to-treat analysis of injury outcomes from a clustered randomised controlled trial in community Australian football. METHODS Players from 18 male, non-elite, community Australian footbal...

Veterans sacrifice their lives in the battlefield for the well being of our country. As a result, they suffer catastrophic injuries that may lead to an amputated limb. Losing a limb can be a very difficult reality to deal with, especially an upper extremity which is responsible for so many everyday functions. Individuals who could do everything for themselves would need additional assistance to...

In recent years, more and college teachers students have started to participate in long-distance running. However, due differences physical fitness exercise levels among participants, unexpected situations are inevitable. Therefore, this article takes some running as the research object study situation of lower limb injuries analyzes frequency location characteristics injuries. Then, a series s...