Ulus Travma Acil Cer
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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Apr 2008
The new Injury Severity Score: a more accurate predictor of need ventilator and time ventilated in trauma patients than the Injury Severity Score.
This study validates the accuracy of the Injury Severity Score (ISS) and the New Injury Severity Score (NISS) systems for prediction of need intubatin (NI), need mechanical ventilation (NMV), and duration of mechanical ventilation (DMV) in intensive care unit (ICU) trauma patient admissions. ⋯ For prediction of NI or NMV, the NISS has better accuracy than ISS.
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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Apr 2008
Burn and vital risk criteria in industrial accidents (as forensic medicine approach).
Burn traumas resulting from industrial accidents may generate a death risk. In such cases a forensic report should be filled up. In forensic findings, the death risk which is associated with the degree of trauma, of the victim is as important as the treatment of the subject. The aim of our research was to investigate what degree of burns causes fatality and which type of industrial accidents cause them. ⋯ The degree of burn was found to be valuable in determining the death risk but the extent of the burned area was found to be more deterministic in assessing this particular risk.
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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Apr 2008
Case ReportsTraumatic intercostal pulmonary herniation: a case report.
We report a case of intercostal pulmonary hernia through a defect in the wall of the thoracic cavity which occurred after blunt thoracic trauma. Diagnosis of pulmonary herniation was confirmed radiologically by chest X-ray and computed tomographic scan. ⋯ The hernia was successfully repaired with prosthetic mesh. Review of the literature shows that when required, surgical repair of pulmonary herniation is the treatment of choice.
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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Apr 2008
[Characteristics of pediatric hand injuries followed up in a hand rehabilitation unit].
To establish the characteristics of patients in pediatric age who have been referred to hand rehabilitation center since 1998. ⋯ Hand injuries occurred mostly in male children, the most frequent type injury was accidental domestic injury of the wrist flexor tendon caused by broken glass fragments and the most frequently injured digit was the 4th and adherence of the patients to the follow-up protocol was unsatisfactory since majority of referrals were out-of-towners.
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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Jan 2008
[Craniocerebral civilian gunshot wounds: one hospital's experience].
In this study we have discussed the factors that affect our surgical results according to our experience on patients who were admitted to our hospital's Emergency Surgery Department for civilian craniocerebral gunshot wounds between 1997 and 2006. ⋯ The mortality rate of craniocerebral gunshot wound is high. The patients with GCS higher than 8 and with unihemispheric lesions during admission have better prognosis. We concluded that all patients must undergo debridement and the patients that have mass effect must be operated as soon as possible.