The number of trauma victims in Turkey is expected to increase as a consequence of the increasing vehicular traffic, potential for earthquakes, and risk of terrorist attacks. The Turkish Association for Trauma and Emergency Surgery monitors trauma cases, publishes a quarterly journal, organizes trauma courses and seminars for various health personnel nationwide. It is also extending efforts to ...

Optimizing trauma care delivery is paramount to saving lives on the battlefield. During the past decade of conflict, trauma care performance improvement at combat support hospitals and forward surgical teams in Afghanistan and Iraq has increased through Joint Trauma System and DoD Trauma Registry data collection, analysis, and rapid evidence-based adjustments to clinical practice guidelines. Al...

background: chest trauma is responsible for 50% of deaths due to trauma. this kind of death usually occurs immediately after the trauma has occurred. objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the various aspects of chest trauma in patients admitted to two main trauma centers located in the isfahan province, iran. conclusions: since hemothorax is the main complication of blunt chest trau...

The crisis in patient access to emergency surgical care as articulated by the Division of Advocacy and Health Policy of the American College of Surgeons is real. It is most likely that in the next 10 years this crisis will only get worse. At last count, there were 190 Level I trauma centers in the United States, of which, 48 have been verified by the American College of Surgeons. There are 263 ...

BACKGROUND Though the US civilian trauma care system plays a critical role in disaster response, there is currently no systems-based strategy that enables hospital emergency management and local and regional emergency planners to quantify, and potentially prepare for, surges in trauma care demand that accompany mass-casualty disasters. OBJECTIVE A proof-of-concept model that estimates the geo...

BACKGROUND Injuries remain a leading cause of death in the developing world. Whereas new investments are welcome, quality improvement (QI) at the currently available trauma care facilities is essential. The objective of this study was to determine the effect and long-term sustainability of trauma QI initiatives on in-hospital mortality and complications at a large tertiary hospital in a develop...

BACKGROUND With various types of complex patients being treated in a mixed medical- surgical- trauma intensive care unit (ICU), we hypothesized that there should be no difference in patient mortality with respect to the core training of the intensivist. METHODS We reviewed the cases of all patients admitted to a mixed medical-surgical-trauma ICU at a Canadian university teaching hospital in 2...

BACKGROUND Regional differences in the care of severely injured patients remain problematic in industrial countries. METHODS In 2006, the German Society for Trauma Surgery initiated the foundation of regional networks between trauma centers in a TraumaNetwork (TNW). The TNW consisted of five major elements as follows: (a) a whitebook on the treatment of severely injured patients; (b) evidence...