The purpose of this article is to present a case series of facial dog bites injuries, its management and emphasize the importance of primary closure. Animal bite injuries, unlike wounds caused by assaults and accidents, are more distinctive, as they cause deep puncture wounds. Such wounds are inoculated with pathogenic bacteria from the saliva of the attacking dog due to the penetration of tiss...

Normal wound healing is accomplished through a series of well-coordinated, progressive events with overlapping phases. Chronic wounds are described as not progressing to healing or not being responsive to management in a timely manner. A consensus panel of multidisciplinary wound care professionals was assembled to (1) educate wound care practitioners by identifying key principles of the basic ...

This paper examines some problems related to trauma care, and, at the same time, discusses some solutions, particularly stressing the need for a trauma system in Great Britain.

The theme of the First World War and its effects on European arts and literature is a theme that has already been widely explored, most notably in the theatrical field. Taking as its starting point a set of plays written both during the early stages of the war and in the postwar period, this article examines the evolution of attitudes towards the conflict in the dramaturgy produced in Portugal,...

Carter (2007) proposed the notion of race-based traumatic stress and argued that experiences of racial discrimination can be viewed as a type of trauma. In a sample of 383 Chinese international students at 2 predominantly White midwestern universities, the present results supported this notion and found that perceived racial discrimination predicted posttraumatic stress symptoms over and above ...

Open laryngeal traumas are seldom seen in E.N.T., specially those ones secondary to horn bull goring. We do a synthetized study with regard to report this original case treated in our Service. We justify the paper because of the intensity, the seriousness and the originality of the picture.

About a year ago I contacted Professor Moore in Denver and presented the idea of founding an Emergency Surgery Journal for worldwide participation. He replied immediately that it was a very timely concept because a new discipline termed " acute care surgeon " was being developed in the USA to meetthe expanding roleof trauma surgeons, and that he was aware that this construct existed in other co...

This paper focuses on physical and psychological traumas of children during and after the Greek Civil War (1946-1949). There were two evacuation programmes: one organised by the Greek Communist Party to seven countries of Eastern Europe and the other by the Greek government and Queen Frederica to children's homes (paidopoleis) in the country. The paper also argues that Greek refugee children ex...