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Homer's Iliad is one of the highest intellectual products of the early ancient Greek civilisation. A plethora of medical information lies within Iliad's 24 rhapsodies, and a total of 147 injuries are described. The present study records and evaluates all cases of trauma management included in this epic poem. Not only Iliad's original text but also all myths related to Iliad from the five-volume...

Despite advances in the management of liver trauma during the past 40 years, haemorrhage has remained the commonest cause of death. This article outlines the diversity of opinion between the desire to determine the extent of damage and resect devitalised tissue with its attendant risk of exacerbating haemorrhage, and the alternative of a more conservative approach.

BACKGROUND Immediate recognition of life-threatening conditions and injuries is the key to trauma management. To date, the impact of focused assessment with computed tomography in trauma (FACTT) has not been formally assessed. We aimed to find out whether the concept of using FACTT during primary trauma survey has a negative or positive effect on survival. METHODS In a retrospective, multicen...

The ageing population has resulted in a change in the demographics of trauma, and older adult trauma now accounts for a growing number of trauma admissions. The management of older adult trauma can be particularly challenging, and exhibits differences to that of the younger age groups affected by trauma. Frailty syndromes are closely related with falls, which are the leading cause of major trau...

Trauma is a major contributor to the global burden of disease. Those who experience major trauma have serious and often multiple injuries associated with a strong possibility of death or disability. Nationally there are around 20 000 cases of major trauma per year in England, and over a quarter of these result in deaths. Trauma care is a developing field, and recent civilian and military resear...

objectives:  to identify the predictive factors of successful non-operative management of patients with intraperitoneal bleeding following blunt abdominal trauma. methods:  this was cross-sectional study being performed in our level i trauma center in southern iran between 2010 and 2011. we included adult (>14 years) patients with blunt abdominal trauma and intraperitoneal hemorrhage detected b...

In Israel, many terrorist acts, like combat incidents, involve explosive devices and result in vascular trauma. Complex vascular trauma of the extremities (CVTE) is a reflection of the amount of energy (a) released by the injuring agent and (b) absorbed by the vital tissues. Such trauma includes extensive arterial and venous lacerations with loss of substance, cornminuted fractures, neural inju...

In trauma associated coagulopathy, the initial treatment consists of hypothermia and acidosis have to be treated aggressively. Already in in the emergency room, fibrinogen deficiency can be detected frequently, in addition, colloids interfere with fibrin polymerisation. Under these aspects, the early administration of fibrinogen seems to be justified. Depleted coagulation factors can be substit...