Study objectives Although the focused assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST) examination was initially developed for rapid evaluation of trauma patients, the basic skillset required to perform a FAST examination provides valuable information that may alter a non-trauma patient's clinical course. The objective of this study was to determine the utility of the FAST examination in the emergen...

Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Department of Surgery, Dignity Health/St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Center for Trauma and Critical Care, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, California, USA Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of S...

o bjective: to compare and evaluation of scores of trauma research center of shiraz university of medical sciences in iran with other trauma research centers in iran. m e thods: the assessment scores of each center were gathered from iran medical research and ministry of health and medical education website. each score is recorded in helical year which is defined from the 21th of march of every...

BACKGROUND To determine the impact of a dedicated trauma service on cost and quality of care in an urban teaching hospital, a before-and-after study was designed. The key elements of the trauma service were dedicated in-house trauma attending surgeons and residents, and continuity and integration of trauma care. METHODS Injury Severity Scores and probabilities of survival for each patient wer...

We have read with interest the recent article by Costa Navarro about trauma systems in Spain that analyzed several hospitals specialized in trauma care. We would like to congratulate the authors for their review of more than 100 centers in their study and for the conclusions to which they arrived, with which we agree completely. However, we would like to make some comments based on what we have...

Although abundant evidence exists indicating the prevalence of trauma exposure among youth in residential care, few models exist for creating trauma-informed milieu treatment. This article outlines the problem and describes the implementation of Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) in three residential centers. TST is unique in emphasizing youth emotions and behaviors as well as the role a distressed o...

Trauma care systems in Spain are provided by the Nacional Health Service in a decentralized way by the seventeen autonomous communities whose process of decentralization was completed in January 2002. Its organisation is similar in all of them. Public sector companies of sanitary emergencies look after the health of citizens in relation to medical and trauma emergencies with a wide range of up ...

BACKGROUND Many women experience psychological trauma during birth. A traumatic birth can impact on postnatal mental health and family relationships. It is important to understand how interpersonal factors influence women's experience of trauma in order to inform the development of care that promotes optimal psychosocial outcomes. METHODS As part of a large mixed methods study, 748 women comp...