background: peripheral vascular injury associated with lower limb trauma is a well-known emergency. the experience for the management of popliteal artery trauma have mainly come from managing the traumas of military personnels during iran-iraq war. the present study compared the effects of two currently-used surgical techniques in the management of popliteal trauma, namley femoropopliteal bypas...

results ecls was initiated at a mean of 324.15 ± 197.8 (110 - 950) min from initial trauma. in 4 patients, ecls treatment failed due to an incapability to maintain adequate ecls flow and patient perfusion. in the other 16 patients efficiently supported by ecls, the cardiac index, mean arterial pressure, lactate concentration, pao2, paco2, and ph showed significant improvement with normal values...

abstract background: in this study we aimed to examine the discrimination and calibration of a severity characterization of trauma (ascot) in our setting to determine whether its usage is appropriate to predict outcome of our trauma patients. methods: this study was conducted in three hospitals. all patients admitted in studied hospitals were divided randomly into two equal subgroups. in each g...

Background and objectives: it is well established that pulmonary thromboembolism is frequent in patients with trauma, in this study we compared pulmonary thromboembolism before and after the autopsy in patients with trauma Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the patients being referred to three of teaching hospitals of Tehran from March 2015 to March ...

conclusions complications of trauma-related injuries are significant factors affecting the outcome of patients. there has been limited research directly exploring this topic, possibly due to the difficulty of undertaking such studies. a particularly important research topic is the prevention and management of complications in elderly trauma patients with comorbidities. in conclusion, complicati...

We reviewed 55 cases with trauma to the urinary bladder. Blunt trauma was the cause of injury in 78 percent of cases and associated pelvic fracture was present in 75 percent. Eighty percent of extraperitoneal ruptures were associated with fracture of the pelvis. The most common cause of trauma was car accident (63%), followed by war injury (20%). Nearly two-thirds of patients (63 %) had ex...

background trauma constitutes a major public health problem in our country and contributes significantly to unacceptably high morbidity and mortality. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the epidemiology of trauma in dead patients referred to shahid rajaee trauma hospital, shiraz, iran. patients and methods in a cross-sectional study, all patients with trauma admitted to our center were enr...

conclusions considering the fact that road-related accidents are quite predictable and controllable; therefore, the quality promotion of traumatic patients' care, and the road safety should be noted as problems associated with public health. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the patients with chest and abdominal trauma hospitalized in the surgery ward of poursina teaching hospital, g...

this prospective study, conducted in 8 cities of iran from 1999 to 2000. out of total 16,573 trauma patients, 106 (0.63%) included in this study had renal injury. this study aimed at investigation of incidence, etiology and management of renal trauma patients in iran. they were 87 (82.1%) male and 19 (17.9%) female patients. renal trauma mechanism was mainly blunt injury (93.4%). road traffic c...