A traumatic infra-renal aortic dissection is a rare but life-threatening injury that follows deceleration injuries. The mechanism of blunt abdominal aortic injury involves both direct and indirect forces. The successful management of patients with traumatic injuries depends on a prompt suspicion of the injury and early diagnosis and therapy. Missed injuries in trauma patients are well-described...

PATIENT Female, 28 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Rupture of the splenic artery aneurysm Symptoms: Hypovolemic shock Medication: - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Surgery. OBJECTIVE Rare disease. BACKGROUND ATLS principles have become a standard of care for trauma patients. However, there is poor documentation in regard to spontaneous non-traumatic life-threatening bleedings. CASE REPORT Two women, a ...

Neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies have implicated the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) in sentence-level processing, with syntactic structure-building and/or combinatorial semantic processing suggested as possible roles. A potential challenge to the view that the ATL is involved in syntactic aspects of sentence processing comes from the clinical syndrome of semantic variant primary progre...

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Abstract Aim This study aimed to analyse the degree of relative variation in specialty-specific competencies required for Certification Completion Training (CCT) set by UK Joint Committee Surgical (JCST) 2021 curriculum. Methods Regulatory body guidance related operative and non-operative surgical skill CCT were analysed compared. Results Wide inter-speciality was demonstrated minimum number lo...

by the year 2020, the incidence of trauma has been predicted to rise worldwide and the death rate is expected to increase from 5.1 million to 8.4 million. the most important cause of death and severe morbidity up to the age of 45 years is traumatic brain injury, with or without polytrauma. since the early 1970s, traffic-related deaths in germany have dropped continuously—with the exception of t...

On 17 April 2019, a coach with tourists from Germany crashed in Madeira, requiring repatriation by the German Air Force. The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) concept was central component of patient care. Data Madeira were collected through structured interview. analysis Aeromedical Evacuation based on intensive care transport records. In Germany, all available medical data sheets reviewed f...

To the Editor: We read with interest the comprehensive review by Ford et al.,1 which was published in August 2016 issue of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. The authors aimed to review the best available evidence regarding the effect of leadership and teamwork in trauma and resuscitation on patient care and how effective leadership can be measured. Presence of a trauma team leader (TTL...