introduction: acute traumatic coagulopathy (atc) is defined as having evidence of coagulopathy in patients with severe trauma. the aim of this preliminary study was to assess the prevalence and associated factors of atc in severely traumatic patients presenting to emergency department (ed). methods: in this retrospective cross sectional study, all patients with severe traumatic injury and avail...

conclusions overall, incidence of birth trauma in kashan city was lower in comparison with most studies. considering existing risk factors, further monitoring on labor, and delivery management in teaching hospitals are recommended to prevent birth injuries. in addition, careful supervision on students and residents' training should be applied in teaching hospitals. patients and methods in this ...

Background and Aim: Pain is an experience often caused by tissue damage and is proportional to the severity of the injury. The role of underlying factors in severity of the pain such as prehospital factors have been discussed in some investigations. The current study aimed to assess the effect of different parameters on pain severity in patients with trauma. Methods and Materials/Patients: The...

head trauma and brain injury are common causes of emergency cases, and predispose multiple psychiatric complications. the head trauma, itself, often occurs after some psychiatric disorders, like mood or substance related disorders. so, the complex interaction of these factors often causes difficulties in diagnosis and management of the patients. the side effects of surgical and medical treatmen...

introduction: trauma due to accidents or fall from height is a major cause of disability and mortality. the present study was designed aiming to evaluate the baseline characteristics of fall from height victims presenting to emergency department (ed). methods: this prospective cross-sectional study evaluates the baseline characteristics of fall from height cases presenting to eds of three educa...

BACKGROUND Different trauma characteristics have been suggested to lead to distinct symptom profiles. This study investigates the effect of two trauma characteristics, age of onset and frequency, on PTSD symptom profiles. METHODS Trauma characteristics (childhood versus adulthood trauma and single versus multiple trauma), psychiatric diagnosis, PTSD severity, depressive symptoms, dissociation...

deep vein thrombosis (dvt) and pulmonary embolism (pte) are known as venous thromboembolism (vte). dvt occurs when a thrombus (a blood clot) forms in deep veins of the body, usually in the lower extremities. it can cause swelling or leg pain, but sometimes may occur with no symptoms. awareness of dvt is the best way to prevent the vte. patients with trauma are at increased risk of dvt and subse...

results ecls was initiated at a mean of 324.15 ± 197.8 (110 - 950) min from initial trauma. in 4 patients, ecls treatment failed due to an incapability to maintain adequate ecls flow and patient perfusion. in the other 16 patients efficiently supported by ecls, the cardiac index, mean arterial pressure, lactate concentration, pao2, paco2, and ph showed significant improvement with normal values...

conclusions saddle nose reconstruction with bone graft in multiple facial fracture patients is a predictable method if surgical accesses to the region are carefully designed, considering the accompanying fractures. results there were 11 patients treated using this method. the male-to-female ratio was 7:5. one miniscrew with the lag technique was the preferred method for the fixation of the dors...

Damage-control surgery is an example of a paradigm shift. The term is borrowed from naval teminology and means gaining the initial control of a damaged ship. Because of the lethal triad the polytrauma patient is at a grave risk. The classical concept of surgically solving all the patient's injuries in the first moment was even theoretically incorrect as a multiple injured patient is a critical ...