The Changed Injury Landscape, More on Injury Prevention Roles for the Lifestyle Physician, and More Than “Limited Progress” Since Injury in America

Much more research needed on injury prevention.

Why isn't more injury prevention evidence-based?

The focus on evidence-based practice is critical to addressing the issue of injuries, yet advances in the science of injury prevention have not always led to advances in practice. Effective approaches are not always adopted, or when adopted and transferred from one setting to another, they do not always achieve expected results. These challenges were the basis of two breakout sessions at the se...

Expecting exoskeletons for more than spinal cord injury.

www.thelancet.com/neurology Published online February 13, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30074-7 1 It’s hard to imagine how someone with a spinal cord injury who has lost the ability to walk must feel when, assisted by an exoskeleton—a robotic suit that supports their weight and helps moves their limbs for them— they are returned some of their former mobility. Advances in this fie...

Malnutrition in Spinal Cord Injury: More Than Nutritional Deficiency

Denervation of the spinal cord below the level of injury leads to complications producing malnutrition. Nutritional status affects mortality and pathology of injured subjects and it has been reported that two thirds of individuals enrolled in rehabilitation units are malnourished. Therefore, the aim should be either to maintain an optimal nutritional status, or supplement these subjects in orde...

Transfusion-related Acute Lung Injury: More Questions Than Answers?

(Accepted for publication March 16, 2015.) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, the putative cause of TRALI is anti–human leukocyte antigen or granulocyte antibodies in the donor blood product with 89% of TRALI cases having these antibodies.5 Clifford et al. did not present data on these antibodies, but the 2013 SHOT annual report suggested that antibodies were present in 40% of TRALI ...