Previous blast injury prediction criteria have been based on exposure to classic Friedlander or ideal blast waves. An ideal waveform is characterized by an instantaneous rise to a peak overpressure that decays exponentially to ambient pressure followed by a negative phase. The prediction criteria did not address injuries resulting from exposure to complex blast waves. It was difficult to establ...

Objective: the present meta-analysis was designed to determine the value of Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rule in prediction of clinically important traumatic brain injury (ciTBI).Methods: Extensive search was conducted in the databases of Medline, Embase, Scopus, Web of Sciences, Cinahl up to the end of August 2017. The search records were screened and summarized b...

INTRODUCTION Anatomic injury, physiological derangement, age, injury mechanism and pre-injury comorbidity are well-founded predictors of trauma outcome. Statistical prediction models may have poorer discrimination, calibration and accuracy when applied in new locations. We aimed to compare the TRISS, TARN and NORMIT survival prediction models in a Norwegian trauma population. METHODS Consecut...