conclusions urban rtas are one of the most important problems in kashan and aran-bidgol cities, which impose a great economic burden on health system. motorcyclists are the most vulnerable victims and multiple trauma and head injury are seen among them extensively. patients and methods during a retrospective study, data including age, sex, injury type and pattern, outcome, hospital stay and tre...

introduction: management of pediatric blunt abdominal trauma in resource-restricted settings requires precise clinical expertise. in this study, we reviewed pediatric patients who were suspected to have blunt abdominal trauma in a level iii trauma center in iran. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 66 injured children were studied from october 01, 2014 to october 01, 2015 in niks...

You are asked to be involved in organizing a trauma service for a major urban center. You are asked to make a decision on whether the services general approach to trauma in the city (which does have a well-established trauma center) will be scoop and run (minimal resuscitation at the scene with a goal to getting the patient to a trauma center as quickly as possible) or on-the-scene resuscitatio...

*Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10003; §Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016; †Institute of Pathogenic Biology, Shandong University School of Medicine, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China; and ‡State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Trauma Center, Institute of Surgery Researc...

In this issue of the Journal, Ateca et al1 report the results of a retrospective single-center investigation describing a population of dogs sustaining bite wounds severe enough to warrant admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). As with most of the current literature available to help guide our clinical decision making, the authors cite the impact of the “euthanasia factor” in interpretation...