INTRODUCTION Previous work suggests that patients with isolated penetrating trauma rarely require spinal immobilisation. This study aimed to identify the incidence of mechanically unstable, or potentially mechanically unstable, spinal column injuries in penetrating trauma patients. The study also aimed to identify the incidence of spinal cord injury as a result of penetrating trauma in Scotland...

This is a retrospective study of six children with ununited scaphoid fractures treated conservatively. Their mean age was 12.8 years (9.7 to 16.3). Five had no early treatment. Radiological signs of nonunion were found at a mean of 4.6 months (3 to 7) after injury. Treatment consisted of cast immobilisation until clinical and radiological union. The mean clinical and radiological follow-up was ...

BACKGROUND Restraint stress induces permeability changes in the rat small intestine but little is known of the ultrastructural events leading to defects of the paracellular sealing or of the short term evolution of these alterations. METHODS In the present study, we performed transmission electron microscopy in the terminal ileum perfused with lanthanum after two hours of immobilisation stres...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To determine the feasibility and interest of an early rehabilitation protocol with no initial immobilisation after proximal row carpectomy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirteen patients were included in this retrospective study. Range of motion (ROM) and wrist strength (grip strength and grasp strength) were evaluated 3 and 6 weeks after surgery on the both wrists (operated and ...

BackgroundCervical spine immobilisation increases the difficulty of tracheal intubation. Many intubation devices have been evaluated in this setting, but their relative performance remains uncertain.MethodsMEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library were searched to identify randomised trials comparing two or more adults with cervical immobilisation. After critical appraisal, a random-effects network...

Coprecipitation provides a rapid high-yield method for self-assembly of nanoparticles on the surface of flat water-soluble crystalline surfaces and a simple immobilisation technique prior to storage or thermal and chemical modification.

The first synthesis of gold nanoparticles stabilised by a sub-stoichiometric amount of sp(2) phosphorus containing ligands was performed, as well as their immobilisation on mesostructured silica and titania hosts.

The transduction signals from the immobilisation of a class I heavy chain, HLA-A2, on a layer guided acoustic plate mode device, followed by binding of beta(2)-microglobulin and subsequent selective binding of a target peptide are reported.

Aims, Objectives and Background Approximately 2500 people suffer a traumatic cervical spinal fracture per year in the UK, of which 10–14% have an associated cord injury. Emergency department practice was changed after Sundstrom et al (2014) found existing evidence for spine collars to be weak. From April 2015 new guideline implemented Royal Derby Hospital removing routine use certain groups. Th...