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by the year 2020, the incidence of trauma has been predicted to rise worldwide and the death rate is expected to increase from 5.1 million to 8.4 million. the most important cause of death and severe morbidity up to the age of 45 years is traumatic brain injury, with or without polytrauma. since the early 1970s, traffic-related deaths in germany have dropped continuously—with the exception of t...

advanced trauma life support (atls) programs are recognized as the standard educational trauma program worldwide. data suggest that atls has a positive impact on the value of trauma care. the atls hungary program has been started in 2005, celebrating its 10-year anniversary this year. in the present brief communication a brief overview is provided on the program.student evaluation and statistic...

objective: to evaluate the effect of advance trauma life support (atls®) training on general surgery residents clinical reasoning skills using the national boards-style objective structured clinical examination (osce). methods: this cross-sectional single-center study was conducted in shiraz university of medical sciences including 51 surgery residents that participated in a mandatory national ...

results the evaluation of eps was identical to that of the radiologists in 89.5% of the cases. ninety-eight percent (98%) indicated total agreement and 1.5 percent total disagreement. conclusions there is a high agreement between eps and radiologists in cxr interpretations in shohadaye tajrish hospital. thus, eps can substitute radiologists in the emergency department. more improvements are rec...