introduction: more than 50 scoring systems have been published for classification of trauma patients in the field, emergency room, and intensive care settings, so far. the present study aimed to compare the ability of trauma injury severity score (triss) and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (apache) iii in predicting mortality of intensive care unit (icu) admitted trauma patients....

INTRODUCTION In this study, we tried to determine whether darbepoetin-α would protect the brain from oxidative stress and apoptosis in a rat traumatic brain injury model. MATERIAL AND METHODS The animals were randomized into four groups; group 1 (sham), group 2 (trauma), group 3 (darbepoetin α), group 4 (methylprednisolone). In the sham group only the skin incision was performed. In all the o...

Introduction: The impact on head injury is trauma to the scalp, brain, and skull, so maintain stable oxygenation in body brain tissues, oxygen therapy very important patients that saturation levels increase. Objective: To determine description of changes clients with injuries. Methods: descriptive case study subjects used were 2 through inclusion exclusion criteria. Results: Changes Head injuri...

traumatic brain injury (tbi) is an important clinical problem in the worldwide and especially due to breaking driving rules in iran, but undesirable consequences of trauma can persist for the rest of patient’s life. we investigated the effect of a novel weight drop model of tbi on incidence of seizure 2 weeks after tbi. in this regard, 21 male wistar rat weighted 250-300 gr randomly were divide...

diagnostic peritoneal lavage (dpl) is considered by many as the most important investigation for the early detection of intraperitoneal injury. the aim of this study is to assess the accuracy of dpl as a diagnostic method in evaluating abdominal trauma. a prospectively maintained database of all dpls performed in the past 36 months at sina hospital was analyzed. information relative to the type...

BACKGROUND Optimisation of healthcare practices in patients sustaining a traumatic brain injury is of major concern given the high incidence of death and long-term disabilities. Considering the brain's susceptibility to ischaemia, strategies to optimise oxygenation to brain are needed. While red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is one such strategy, specific RBC strategies are debated. We aimed to ...

A new in vivo animal model that produces diffuse brain injuries in sagittal plane rearward rotational acceleration has been developed. In this model, the skull of an anesthetized adult rat is tightly secured to a rotating bar. During trauma, the bar is impacted by a striker that causes the bar and the animal head to rotate rearward; the acceleration phase last 0.4 ms and is followed by a rotati...

background injuries and accidents are the first cause of death in the first 5 years of children life in the world; the present study was conducted to investigate the extent and distribution of accidents in the infants under one year in hamadan province, iran. materials and methods:this cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was carried out using of   data of injuries and accidents related t...

in our country injury and its related sequelae are major public health problems. organizations that are responsible for dealing with these issues must be familiar with the impact of it on national health status and resources to have prioritized their control strategies and also target trauma centers. injury is the 5th cause of death in the whole population and the 1st in the age first decades o...

traumatic head injury is the underlying cause of approximately 5% of all persons with epilepsy and is the major cause of epilepsies starting in young adulthood. penetrating head injury, particularly among soldiers, carries a risk of almost 50% of developing post-traumatic epilepsy (pte), mostly within 6 months to two years after the trauma. early seizures (within one week of the trauma) are dep...