Ambulatory surgery currently represents more than two thirds of surgeries performed. It is considered low-risk surgery and patients expect to be discharged home safely and comfortably the same day. More than 30 years of evidence supports the idea that preoperative assessment is best done by a focused history and physical, and only minimal, selective, further laboratory investigations. Costs are...

Self-injury is deemed a pathology and deviant practice that not socially sanctioned culturally accepted as soothing healing the self. The marked female body also pathologized perceived deviant; hence, having self-inflicted scars may easily lead to social stigma, shame, need hide scars. In this personal reflection I explore how can have same meaning self-injury control self act self-expression, ...

BACKGROUND There is minimal literature comparing self-inflicted (SI) with non-self-inflicted (NSI) anterior abdominal stab wounds (AASW). METHODS Adult patients treated at a level 1 trauma center from 2006 through 2011 with an AASW were reviewed. RESULTS There were 215 patients with an AASW; 20% were SI. NSI patients had more nonabdominal injuries (47% vs 16%, P < .01) and disposition direc...

There are very few reports in the literature dealing with the neuropathology of infant head injury, and the question of whether diffuse traumatic brain damage [diffuse axonal injury (DAI)] occurs in such children has not yet been reliably established by detailed neuropathological studies. We report the findings in the brains of a series of 37 infants aged 9 months or less, all of whom died from...

background: injuries and psychiatric disorders, notably both major public health concerns, are associated with a high burden and are believed to be bi-directionally correlated. those inflicted with injuries face increased risks of mental illnesses. psychiatric disorders may make the individual prone to injuries. the objective of the study was to assess the correlation of mental disorders with n...

  Purpose: Since explosive blasts continue to cause casualties in both civil and military environments, there is a need for an understanding of the mechanisms of blast trauma at the human organ level, plus a more detailed predictive methodology. The primary goal of this research was to develop a finite element model capable of predicting primary blast injury to the lung so as to assist in the d...