PROBLEM Chronic pain conditions are common sequelae of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Unfortunately, the incidence of TBI among personnel deployed for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) is significant, and there is growing evidence that ongoing pain, particularly headaches, will be a primary concern for these individuals. OBJECTIVE This article synthesizes empirical data f...

BACKGROUND Management of orthopaedic injuries in polytrauma cases continues to challenge the orthopaedic traumatologist. Mass disasters compound this challenge further due to delayed referral. Recently there has been increasing evidence showing that damage control surgery has advantages that are absent in the early total care modality. We studied the damage control modality in the management of...

Foot injuries are an often disabling, especially when the diagnosis is delayed and treatment is inappropriate; this becomes significant in polytrauma where diagnosis maybe missed, and in young adults who are injured in the prime of life. No data on foot injury is available from India or any other developing country; we undertook a prospective 1 year study to evaluate incidence and epidemiology ...

14 Olivera Lupescu 8 Calea Floreasca, 1 District, 014461, Bucharest, Romania e-mail: [email protected] Abstract. Polytrauma represents an association of multiple injuries capable of inducing a systemic response and resulting in a life-threatening condition. Regardless of the different approaches and definitions, the severity of this association, determined by a specific pathophysiology,...

BACKGROUND Telemedicine widely takes root in all branches of modern medicine including traumatology and orthopedics. The main goal of this work was to present our experience with asynchronic teleconsultation in daily clinical practice, in particular in the treatment of polytrauma patients. METHODS Throughout 2000 and 2003, we carried out 144 teleconsultations for 92 men and 52 women (age rang...

BACKGROUND The deterioration of hemodynamics instantly endangers the patients' life after polytrauma. As accidental hypothermia frequently occurs in polytrauma, therapeutic hypothermia still displays an ambivalent role as the impact on the cardiopulmonary function is not yet fully understood. METHODS We have previously established a porcine polytrauma model including blunt chest trauma, penet...

Little is known about the visual function deficits associated with polytrauma injury. In this retrospective descriptive study, we examined the records of a clinic established to assess visual function in patients experiencing deployment-related polytrauma. We describe the clinical findings and present a vision examination protocol that may be useful for screening polytrauma patients in other se...

Polytrauma is a combination of injuries to more than one body part or organ system. Polytrauma is common in warfare, and in automobile and industrial accidents. The combination of injuries can include burn, fracture, hemorrhage, and trauma to the extremities or specific organ systems. Resistance to anabolic hormones, loss of muscle mass, and metabolic dysfunction can occur following injury. To ...