Objective. A single PAN scan may provide more radiation to a patient than is felt to be safe within a one-year period. Our objective was to determine how many patients admitted to the trauma service following a PAN scan had prior CT imaging within our six-hospital system. Methods. We performed a secondary analysis of a prospectively collected trauma registry. The study was based at a level-two ...

To date, the Trauma Registry (TraumaRegister DGU® contains data of approximately 100.000 severely injured patients, 65% of which suffered from a road traffic crash. Thus, it is the world’s largest data base for severely injured patients. The article describes the development of the registry and explains how it was rolled out over Germany using the established structure of the German Trauma Netw...

Background Pre-injury comorbidity influence outcome in severely injured patients. Pre-injury comorbidity graded according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status (ASA-PS) classification system (Table 1) is an independent predictor of survival in trauma patients, and is suggested as a comorbidity score in the Utstein Trauma Template. Little is known about the levels of agree...

INTRODUCTION Traumas represent the cause of 10 % of deaths in the entire world. The successful development of trauma systems, including the use of trauma registries, played a significant part in lowering the mortality and the disabilities due to injuries resulted from trauma. METHOD Review of the literature using computerized database of National Library of Medicine and the International Inst...

INTRODUCTION Trauma is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Data characterizing the burden of trauma in Cameroon is limited. Regular, prospective injury surveillance can address the shortcomings of existing hospital administrative logs and medical records. This study aims to characterize trauma as seen at the emergency department (ED) of Limbe Regional Hospital (LRH) and assess...

BACKGROUND Derived from the necessity to improve the outcomes of soldiers injured on the battlefield, the U.S. military forces developed and implemented the Joint Theater Trauma System (JTTS) and the Joint Theater Trauma Registry based on U.S. civilian trauma system models. The purpose of this analysis was to develop battlefield injury outcome benchmark metrics and to evaluate the impact of JTT...

INTRODUCTION National studies of largely urban populations showed increased risk of traumatic death among uninsured patients, as compared to those insured. No similar studies have been done for major trauma centers serving rural states. METHODS We performed retrospective analyses using trauma registry records from adult, non-burn patients admitted to a single American College of Surgeons-cert...