Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, NE Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE d Trauma and Preparedness Services, Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, NE Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Ce...

Background: To evaluate the present status of blood utilization and develop practice guidelines in teaching hospitals in Northern Iran. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the amount of blood prepared and used preoperatively for 11 elective procedures, from March 2010 to March 2011 in teaching hospitals in Northern Iran. Study variables included the crossmatch transfusion ratio, the transfusi...

A crisis affecting every geographic region and every socioeconomic segment of the United States is threatening the future viability of emergency and trauma care in America. As the financial and social burden of providing trauma care has fallen on individual states, hospitals and physicians, record numbers of emergency departments and trauma centers have been forced to close. The ultimate cost o...

Address: 1Consultant Surgeon, General, Emergency and Transplant Surgery DPT, St. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy and 2Chief, Trauma Services, Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Center at Denver Health Medical Center Chief, Department of Surgery, Denver Health Medical, Center Professor of Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery,...

T is a major cause of mortality throughout the world but in recent years, major advances have been made in the management of trauma which has been reduced mortality [1]. Pain management and control is a critical part of trauma care. In the recent 3 decades, there has been a growing interest in pain management of trauma patients following some studies which showed that these patients are general...

X Stephan van der Zwaard, Cornelis J. de Ruiter, Dionne A. Noordhof, Renske Sterrenburg, Frank W. Bloemers, Jos J. de Koning, Richard T. Jaspers, and Willem J. van der Laarse Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, MOVE Research Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Trauma Surgery, VU University Medical Cen...

BACKGROUND Few interdisciplinary research groups include basic scientists, pharmacists, therapists, nutritionists, laboratory technicians, as well as trauma patients and families, in addition to clinicians. Increasing interprofessional diversity within scientific teams working to improve trauma care is a goal of national organizations and federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes...

Background: Trauma center and multidisciplinary management protocols have been proven to improve the outcomes of severely injured patients. Hemorrhage from pelvic injury is associated with high mortality a common cause preventable trauma death. This study aimed evaluate effects establishment on hemodynamically unstable patients fractures. Methods: Hemodynamically fractures were reviewed retrosp...