BACKGROUND The Philippine General Hospital (PGH) is the pioneer in trauma care in the country, being the first to create a dedicated Trauma Service in 1989. The service has not conducted a review of its admissions and mortalities since 1992. The purpose of this study is to describe the mortality patterns of this service. METHODS A descriptive and retrospective 3-year review, covering January ...

There has been significant progress in the field of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) over the last several years which support vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. With the two types of communication modes, user can access the internet and existing mobility management can be reviewed. Mobility management and handoffs are the most challenging research issues for vehi...

Copyright: © 2016 Erik Everhart D, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Sports-related concussions (SRC) are common, with 1.6 to 3.8 million occurring within the United States each year [1]. ...

This 16-year retrospective study reports the data on 456 consecutive patients with 557 peripheral nerve injuries (PNIs) between 1989 and 2004. Most patients were men (74%) and the mean age was 32.4 years. In 83% of cases the PNIs were isolated; combined lesions most commonly involved the ulnar and median nerves. Upper-limb PNIs occurred in 73.5% of cases; the ulnar nerve was most often injured,...

OBJECTIVE Soft tissue injuries with full-thickness skin involvement not amenable to local flaps may be treated with dermal matrices and subsequent skin grafting. METHODS A pediatric patient presented with a 50-cm(2) scalp avulsion down to periosteum and outer cranial table post-vehicular trauma. After cultivating healthy cranial neodermis with Integra Bilayer Matrix Wound Dressing, a novel mo...

UNLABELLED Fractures of the scapula body are relatively rare constituting 1% of all fractures and 5% of all fractures around shoulder (1). They are usually caused due to high energy vehicular trauma or fall of heavy object over scapula (1,2,3). In most cases of scapula fractures, early functional treatment gives good or excellent results (1,2). Operative treatment may however be indicated in hi...

arlier this year, two L6-year-oIds E l injured in a drunk-driving accident ; near their high school were taken to Scripps .Mercy Hospital in San Diegoone by Mercy Air, the hospital's helicopter service, and the other by ambulance. Once inside the trauma room, physicians and nurses tried valiantly to save their lives. When the victims parents arrived at Mercy, they experienced the tragedy of sud...

A five-year old, spayed female, Bearded Collie was presented with a 24-hour history of non-weight-bearing lameness of the right thoracic limb after sustaining vehicular trauma. Radiographs revealed a craniolateral scapulohumeral luxation and a distally and medially displaced fracture of the lesser tubercle of the humerus. Open reduction and internal fixation of the fracture was achieved with la...

BACKGROUND Lower extremity injuries (LEIs) sustained in vehicular crashes result in physical problems and unexpected psychosocial consequences. Their significance is diminished by low Abbreviated Injury Scale scores. METHODS Drivers who sustained LEIs were identified as part of the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) and interviewed during hospitalization, at 6 months, and a...

This paper explores recent improvements in 802.11p multi-channel protocol in vehicular ad-hoc networks. We provide definitions for a vehicular network and explore the operation of 802.11 within a vehicular network. We also study on areas of improvements of this protocol and briefly discuss on advantages and disadvantages of each solution.