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...

INTRODUCTION The difficulties in the management of the blunt chest wall trauma patient in the Emergency Department due to the development of late complications are well recognised in the literature. Pre-injury anti-platelet therapy has been previously investigated as a risk factor for poor outcomes following traumatic head injury, but not in the blunt chest wall trauma patient cohort. The aim o...

Tracheal injuries, following blunt neck trauma, are life-threatening surgical emergencies with high risk of mortality. A index suspicion is necessary to avoid missing an occult injury because delays in diagnosis and definitive treatment associated poorer outcomes. We, herein, report a case 28-year man who presented Emergency Department 15 days after trauma from accident involving electric cable...

BACKGROUND Blunt hollow viscus injury (HVI) is uncommon. No sufficiently large series has studied the prevalence of these injuries in blunt trauma patients. This study defines the prevalence of blunt HVI, in addition to the associated morbidity and mortality rates for this diagnosis on the basis of a series of over 275,000 trauma admissions. METHODS Patients with blunt small bowel injury (SBI...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to describe pelvic fractures and their associated injuries in service members who either died of wounds or were killed in action during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and define any differences in associated injuries between penetrating versus blunt injury to the pelvis. METHODS A review of all service members who sustained a pe...

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...

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T raumatic blunt injury to the thoracic aorta is one of the most formidable challenges surgeons face. This devastating condition can lead to immediate death at the time of injury in the majority of cases, due in part to either aortic transection or acute rupture.1 Although blunt aortic injury accounts for less than 1% of all adult level I trauma center admissions, this condition represents the ...

We induced mild blunt and blast injuries in rats using a custom-built device and utilized in-house diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) software to reconstruct 3-D fiber tracts in brains before and after injury (1, 4, and 7 days). DTI measures such as fiber count, fiber length, and fractional anisotropy (FA) were selected to characterize axonal integrity. In-house image analysis software also showed ...

objective: to determine the presentation, anatomical distribution, diagnostic method, management and outcome of hollow viscus injury (hvi) from blunt abdominal trauma. methods: this was a retrospective cross-sectional study including patients with blunt abdominal trauma leading to hvi admitted at rajendra institute of medical sciences, ranchi, over a period of 4.5 years (january 2009 to july 20...