Early hospital management of trauma patients is a daily activity for most emergency physicians. The ability to quickly assess, stabilize and initiate treatment of these patients is critically important to optimize outcomes. This issue of “Resident Journal Review” focuses on selected updates in the trauma literature. We specifically review new developments in trauma pharmacology, biomarkers in t...

traumatic coronary artery-cameral fistulas (tcaf) are rare and may present secondary to penetrating injuries (80%) or iatrogenic traumas. early operative intervention remains the recommended treatment modality for accidental traumatic coronary artery fistulas. we report the case of a 17-year-old man who presented with left anterior descending coronary artery-right ventricle fistula following pe...

from 20 patients with bladder injury due to war trauma, three patients were in critical condition because of extensive bladder injury associated with rectosigmoid injury and septicemia. in these three patients, early supravesical diversion was undertaken using ileal conduit. after stabilization of the patients' condition, undiversion was performed successfully, bringing the patients back t...

early prediction of ongoing hemorrhage may reduce mortality via the earlier delivery of blood products, adequate orientation of the patient in a dedicated highly specialized and trained infrastructure, and by earlier correction of acute traumatic coagulopathy. we identified 14 scores or algorithms developed for the prediction of ongoing hemorrhage and the need for massive transfusion in severe ...

BACKGROUND No previous study has investigated the association between early trauma and suicidal behavior in medical students. We evaluated the types of early trauma which are the most strongly associated with a lifetime history of suicidal behavior in medical students. METHOD A total of 6986 medical students completed a self-administered questionnaire (response rates: 49.6% of the entire medi...

INTRODUCTION High mobility group box nuclear protein 1 (HMGB1) is a DNA nuclear binding protein that has recently been shown to be an early trigger of sterile inflammation in animal models of trauma-hemorrhage via the activation of the Toll-like-receptor 4 (TLR4) and the receptor for the advanced glycation endproducts (RAGE). However, whether HMGB1 is released early after trauma hemorrhage in h...

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of studies that have investigated the assumption that early childhood trauma is associated with hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). The current study is the first to simultaneously investigate relationships among early childhood trauma, cortisol activity, and cortisol stress reactivity to psychosocial stress in a...

Abstract Date Presented 04/01/2022 Exposure to early trauma significantly influences development, affecting functional participation in daily occupations. Trauma-informed practices within schools are of high interest and significance school-based practitioners. Results indicate that OTs need become advocates for the profession, ensure growth understanding our vast scope practice schools, contin...

BACKGROUND Few genetically informative studies have examined the effects of different types of trauma on risk for depression over time. The aim of the present study was to examine the relative contributions over time of assaultive trauma, non-assaultive trauma, and familial effects to risk for depression. METHOD Histories of depression and trauma were obtained during structured diagnostic int...

results males (8,593 patients) were more likely to have eye trauma than females (1,262). the mean age for the outpatient cases was 20.3 ± 16.39 years and for the inpatient cases it was 22.7 ± 18.95 years. the workplace was the most common site for trauma and the cornea was the most reported anatomically injured site. for those patients who had not used safety and protection equipment, 93.1% wer...