background and purpose: decision-making process in thoracolumbar and lumbar burst fracture (tlbf) patients with thoracolumbar injury severity and classification score (tlics) > 4 is remained controversial. on the other hand, the question is whether that the oswestry disability index (odi) can be use to assess to clinical outcomes in these patients . we aimed to study the correlation between the...

traumatic brain injury (tbi) is an important cause of death and disability in young adults ,and may lead to physical disabilities and long-term cognitive, behavioral psychological and social defects. there is a lack of definite result about the effect of thyroid hormones after traumatic brain injury in the severity and no data about their effect on mortality of the injury. the aim of this study...

background: the global status report of the world health organization (who) on road safety suggested that india is leading in road traffi c accidents in the world. according to the report on road accidents in india in 2010 by the transport research wing, ministry of road transport and highways, new delhi, kerala ranked third in accidents per lakh population and second in persons injured per lak...

vehicle occupants comprise a considerable proportion of traffic crash victims in iran. this paper has focused on vehicleoccupants’ injury severity and employed the classification and regression tree (cart) technique in order toidentify the most important variables affecting the injury severity of these road users in crashes occurred on rural freewaysand multilane highways in iran over a three y...

background: ingestion of caustic substances is the main reason for referral to philippines national poison management and control center among other causes of acute poisoning. rapid assessment of severity of injury is important for treatment and prognosis of these cases. this study was aimed to investigate the correlation of clinical factors with severity of gastrointestinal (gi) mucosal injury...

acute injuries of the spine and spinal cord are among the most causes of severe disability and death after trauma. data about spine fracture with or without cord damage are different. the aim of this study was to determine epidemiology and demographics of spinal injury in main trauma center, guilan, an iranian province. the present study was a descriptive study of all cases of traumatic spine i...

conclusions age, injury severity, injured body region, and hospital-acquired infections are important determinants of trauma outcome in our center. timely recognition of factors affecting trauma mortality is crucial for monitoring changes of trauma quality of care. our findings suggest the need to allocate resources for trauma prevention along with a potential focus on reducing in-hospital comp...

conclusions due to more sophisticated diagnostic tools and surgical approaches, mortality and morbidity of blunt aortic injuries were significantly reduced over the years compared to thoracic endovascular aortic repair and or over two different time periods. objectives the aim of the present study was to retrospectively evaluate the mortality and morbidity with either treatment option. therefor...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to characterize modern point-of-injury (POI) en-route care platforms and to compare mortality among casualties evacuated with conventional military retrieval (CMR) methods to those evacuated with an advanced medical retrieval (AMR) capability. BACKGROUND Following a decade of war in Afghanistan, the impact of en-route care capabilities from the POI on ...