1 Oral and maxillofacial surgery and trauma specialist, Hospital da Restauração, Recife, PE. Oral and maxillofacial surgeon. 2 Oral and maxillofacial surgery and trauma specialist, Hospital da Restauração, Recife, PE. Oral and maxillofacial surgeon. 3 Medical resident in oral and maxillofacial surgery, Hospital da Restauração, Recife, PE. Dental surgeon. 4 Doctoral degree in oral biology, Paris...

Introduction Trauma is a leading cause of death in children in developed countries.1,2 In Africa, as in many developing countries where malnutrition and infectious diseases are leading causes of death in children, trauma may not be encountered as often by the surgeon. As developing countries improve the general health care of children with better nutrition and control of infectious disease vect...

Soft-tissue management and subsequent salvage of the lower extremity following trauma has long presented difficult challenges to plastic surgeon. Trauma can produce long-term sequelae consisting psychological trauma, functional deficits, increased costs healthcare system. Avoiding incorrect is important, compounded by fact that few guidelines exist on appropriate treatment patient counseling. T...

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...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To systematically review the relationship of trauma centre characteristics and trauma patient outcomes. BACKGROUND Numerous studies have documented the impact of trauma centre level, trauma centre verification, volume per centre and per surgeon or resource availability on outcomes among trauma patients. However, there continues to be debated about whether trauma care is co...

OBJECT Magnetic resonance imaging has been proposed as a powerful technique for assessing the integrity of the posterior ligamentous complex (PLC) in spinal trauma. Because MR imaging is often used to determine appropriate treatment, it is important to determine the accuracy and reliability of MR imaging in diagnosing PLC disruption. The purpose of this study is to compare the ability of the ra...

ECU trauma surgeon Dr. Eric A. Toschlog speaks with injury prevention epidemiologist Stephen W. Marshall about the role of clinicians and policymakers in deterring firearm death North Carolina nationwide.