trauma

Physicial and emotional reactions often occur as a result of a natural emergency or traumatic event such as a terrorist attack. These reaction can happen immediatly or weeks or months after an event. Traumatic events are marked by a sense…

Authors: Paul E Pepe1,2*, Lynn P Roppolo1,2 and Raymond L Fowler1,2 1 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dallas, USA 2 The Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas County, USA This…

FAST EXAMINATION AS AN IMPORTANT ASSESSMENT IN PATIENTS WITH TRAUMA (Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma) Authors: Hisham A. Ben Lamin MD. - Chiranjivi Potu MD. FAST examination is used in emergency Blunt trauma to Abdomen and…

Author: Robert McKenzie KZN Emergency Medical Services have a dedicated team of paramedics who are flight paramedics on the services air ambulance. The lifesaving service is responsible for saving hundreds of lives. I recently had the…

This article describes the design and protocol of the Head Injury Retrieval Trial (HIRT) which is a randomised controlled single centre trial of physician prehospital care (delivering advanced interventions such as rapid sequence intubation…

Does prehospital advanced life support (ALS) improve the survival of major trauma patients and whether it is associated with longer on-scene times? 

 Are you afraid to throw out your spinal board? It's time to change your mind about spinal immobilization A PAPER TO KNOW MORE - Dr D Connor, K Porter, M Bloch and I Graves in the "Pre-hospital Spinal Immobilization: An Initial Consensus…

Background: Bleeding is the most frequent cause of preventable death after severe injury. Coagulopathy associated with severe injury complicates the control of bleeding and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in trauma…

Recommendation REC M 0031 of the Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine of May 2013 about Resuscitation of avalanche victims In North America and Europe ∼150 persons are killed by avalanches every year. The International Commission…

Trauma induced coagulopathy (TIC) is now recognized as one of the major contributors to mortality in badly injured patients.