World journal of surgery
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World journal of surgery · Jul 2011
Rural high north: a high rate of fatal injury and prehospital death.
Finnmark County is the northernmost county in Norway. For several decades, the rate of mortality after injury in this sparsely inhabited region has remained above the national average. Following documentation of this discrepancy for the period 1991-1995, improvements to the trauma system were implemented. The present study aims to assess whether trauma-related mortality rates have subsequently improved. ⋯ Changes in injury-related mortality cannot be linked to improvements in the trauma system. There was no change in the epidemiological patterns of injury. The high rate of on-scene mortality indicates that any major improvement in the number of injury-related deaths lies in targeted prevention.
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World journal of surgery · Jul 2011
The quality of life after bar removal in patients after the nuss procedure for pectus excavatum.
The goal of this study was to evaluate the outcome of patients who had the Nuss procedure for repair of pectus excavatum. ⋯ The Nuss procedure had a positive impact on the patients' and parents' quality of life. However, the scores before and after bar removal did not differ.