Eur J Trauma Emerg S
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Medical technology has benefited many types of patients, but trauma care has arguably benefited more from technologic development than almost any other field. ⋯ The advances in trauma care are in great measure due to the integration of many different systems. Medical technology impacts care in the field at the site of the trauma, in the transport to trauma facilities, and care at the trauma center itself. Once at the hospital, technology has impacted care in the trauma bay, intensive care units, the operating room, and in postoperative and long-term care settings. The integration of advancements, however, needs to be examined in a careful systematic fashion to insure that patients will actually derive benefit.
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In this study, factors causing falls from height and precautions taken for their prevention were investigated. ⋯ Since the vast majority of the fall cases were in the pre-school age group, most were due to falls from a balcony, and more than half of the cases were unaccompanied by parents or caregivers, there are two issues that need to be addressed in relation to pediatric falls from height: family education and legal regulations considering child safety in the design of doors, windows, and balconies of buildings.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg S · Jun 2012
Impact of trauma societies on the clinical care of polytrauma patients.
Trauma societies have an influence on the management and outcome of polytrauma. Its contributions include setting up standard definitions, trauma registries, evidence-based medicine guidelines, and the creation of educational tools such as specific courses of trauma care and decision-making. ⋯ Trauma and emergency care societies have made an elaborate, substantial contribution by developing trauma registries and creating specific guidelines courses on trauma care and decision-making.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg S · Jun 2012
The need for early angiography in patients with penetrating renal injuries.
Renal injuries occur in as many as 10% of penetrating abdominal wounds. Today, these wounds are often managed selectively, but there is little contemporary information on the natural history of kidney injuries after penetrating trauma. The purpose of this study was to examine the clinical outcomes of penetrating injuries to the kidney, and to determine if these patients may benefit from routine early angiography. ⋯ Nearly one in three patients with penetrating renal injuries are currently managed with serial observation, although one in five of these subjects ultimately require either angiographic or surgical treatment. We feel that routine use of early angiography may reduce the failure rate and improve outcomes for patients whose penetrating renal injuries are managed nonoperatively.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg S · Jun 2012
Patient influx and trauma types in a front-line hospital and a secondary referral hospital after the Wenchuan earthquake: a retrospectively comparative study.
To better understand the differences of patient influx and types of trauma between front-line and referral hospitals after the Wenchuan earthquake, so as to improve the efficiency of injury management. ⋯ There were dramatically different features in terms of quake-related patient influx and types of injury between the epicenter and less-affected hospitals.