o bjective: to describe the epidemiological characteristics of patients with cervical spine injury admitted to rajaee hospital, shiraz, iran. m e thods: this cross-sectional study includes all patients admitted with impression of cervical column injury with or without cervical cord injury from october 2009 to march 2012 to our level i trauma center in shiraz. we recorded the patients’ character...

objectives we aim to evaluate the role of glibenclamide on the short-term outcome of patients with dai due to moderate to severe tbi. patients and methods in this controlled randomized clinical trial, 40 patients with moderate to severe tbi were assigned to glibenclamide (n = 20) and control (n = 20) groups. six hours after admission the intervention group received 1.25 mg glibenclamide every 1...

background ocular trauma is a significant health problem in pediatric patients. objectives the aim of this study was to analyze the characteristics of ocular-trauma-related hospitalization of children in kashan. patients and methods this descriptive, cross-sectional study included 131 children aged less than 16 years with ocular trauma, who were admitted to the matini hospital at the kashan uni...

tracheobronchial injuries are uncommon and their successful diagnosis and treatment often requires high level of suspicious. surgical repair should be individualized for each type of injury. this article reviews diagnosis and management of traumatic injuries to the trachea and major bronchi. from march 1991 to march 2003, twenty-seven patients with major airway trauma were managed in nemazee ho...

conclusion our study emphasizes the importance of the preventive strategies for falls in the old age group and road traffic injuries in young males. results in total, 73 trauma patients were registered. the mean age was 40.19 (sd 20.34) years and 67.1% of the patients were male. in general, the most common cause of injury was falls (47.9%), followed by road traffic injury (40.8%). assault and e...

background: health-related quality-of-life (hr-qol) may be affected by various factors including injury-related characteristics among individuals with spinal cord injury (sci). however, the impact of the influence of these variables has not yet been fully described in iranian population. here, we assessed the relationships between injury-related characteristics and hr-qol among iranian people w...

major pancreatic injury following blunt abdominal trauma by itself is a relatively rare occurrence, and in vast majority of cases (95%) it is associated with injury to adjacent major vessels and organs; thus making isolated major pancreatic injury even rarer. while most pancreatic injuries are managed by simple measures like debridement and drainage, complex proximal injury poses surgical chall...

Early reperfusion of totally occluded coronary arteries with thrombolysis and/or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) reduces infarct size, cardiac mortality, and in-hospital events.1,2 Prompt reperfusion of epicardial blood flow reduces infarct size and mortality rates, in-hospital events, and reinfarction. Furthermore, successful reperfusion greatly a...

conclusions high temperatures and low humidity increased the risk of trauma deaths in our study. however, more studies are needed to document this. results the findings of this study showed that the overall mortality caused by trauma is higher in the warm season. the highest correlation between mortality and temperature was seen in ages over 60 years (r = 0.301, p = 0.020) in trauma deaths and ...

background: a glass injury to the wrist and forearm is a common condition in adults and children that may cause significant discomfort and disability. this study was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of preoperative examination of this injury. methods: in this prospective study, among patients referred to kashani hospital in isfahan, iran from august 2006 to march 2008, 150 patients with glass...