Please cite this paper as: Paydar S, Farhadi P, Ghaffarpasand F. Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Tips to Be Kept In Mind. Bull Emerg Trauma. 2013; 1(1):49-51. Corresponding author: Fariborz Ghaffarpasand Address: Trauma Research Center, Shahid Rajaee Trauma Hospital, Chamran Avenue, PO Box: 713451876 Shiraz, Iran. Tel: +98-917-3095214 Fax: +98-711-6254206 e-mail: fariborz_ghaffarpasand@yaho...

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BACKGROUND Helicopters have become a major part of the modern trauma care system and are frequently used to transport patients from the scene of their injury to a trauma center. While early studies reported decreased mortality for trauma patients transported by helicopters when compared with those transported by ground ambulances, more recent research has questioned the benefit of helicopter tr...

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Today we are facing with an increasing number of multiple trauma patients resulting from vehicle accidents, disasters and wa...

Infections Alice Barsoumian, MD; Katrin Mende, PhD; Carlos J. Sanchez Jr., PhD; Miriam L. Beckius, MPH; Joseph Wenke, PhD; Clinton K. Murray, MD; Kevin S. Akers, MD; San Antonio Military Medical Center, JBSA Fort Sam Houston, TX; Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Department of Extremity Trauma, United States Army Institute of Surgical Res...

OBJECTIVES We analyze whether hazard rates of shutting down trauma centers are higher due to financial pressures or in areas with vulnerable populations (such as minorities or the poor). MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study of all hospitals with trauma center services in urban areas in the continental US between 1990 and 2005, identified from the American Hospital Association A...

conclusions young men form the target group for possible interventions to decrease the burden of trauma following falls and traffic accidents. materials and methods in a cross-sectional study, 19530 trauma cases admitted to the emergency department and hospital wards of shohada university hospital during 2007-2008 were assessed. results of the 19530 trauma cases, 14960(76.7%) were males. mean (...