INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated restrictions may have modified activities of Swiss population thus altered trauma patterns. MATERIALS AND PATIENTS: All adult patients with major admitted to our institution in 2019 2020 were assessed using Injury Severity Score (ISS), by body region involved, type injury, age, admission an intensive care unit 30-day mortality. RESULTS: In ...

introduction: acute traumatic coagulopathy (atc) is defined as having evidence of coagulopathy in patients with severe trauma. the aim of this preliminary study was to assess the prevalence and associated factors of atc in severely traumatic patients presenting to emergency department (ed). methods: in this retrospective cross sectional study, all patients with severe traumatic injury and avail...

OBJECTIVE To study de prognostic value and the difference between genders in the injury mechanism and pattern of multiple trauma patients. DESIGN Prospective descriptive observational study. SETTING Trauma Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a tertiary hospital equipped with an heliport. Patients. 953 patients consecutively admitted to ICU between 2003 and 2005. MAIN VARIABLES OF INTEREST We des...

BACKGROUND AND AIM This study aims to determine the factors that affect morbidity and mortality in colon and rectum injuries related with trauma, the use of trauma scoring systems in predicting mortality and morbidity. PATIENTS AND METHODS Besides patient demographic characteristics, the mechanism of injury, the time between injury and surgery, accompanying body injuries, admittance Glasgow c...

Abstract Background The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and Severity Score (ISS) are widely used to assess trauma patients. In this study, the interobserver variability of injury severity assessment for severely injured patients was analyzed based on different anatomical regions, various demographic backgrounds observers. Methods A standardized questionnaire presented surgical experts participan...

Early estimation of mortality risk in patients with trauma is essential. In this study, we evaluate the validity of the Emergency Trauma Score (EMTRAS) and Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS) for predicting in-hospital mortality in patients with trauma. Furthermore, we compared the REMS and the EMTRAS with 2 other scoring systems: the Revised Trauma Score (RTS) and Injury Severity score (ISS)...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to investigate the early changes of plasma levels of angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) in patients with multiple trauma and the relations of plasma Ang-2, endothelial injury, and prognosis. METHODS This study comprised 59 patients with multiple trauma who had been treated at the emergency department of Liao Cheng People's Hospital from January 2008 to January 2010. A...

Two modified mapping tables that convert Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 98 codes to AIS 2008 codes have been separately developed by Palmer et al. (P‐map) and Tohira et al. (T‐map). We aimed to determine which map gives the most accurate code conversion. We computed the intraclass correlation coefficients for the Injury Severity Score (ISS), the Ne...

There are few reliable markers for assessing traumatic brain injury (TBI). Elevated levels of oxidative stress have been observed in TBI patients. We hypothesized that oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) could be a potent biomarker in TBI. Two types of ORP were measured in patient plasma samples: the static state of oxidative stress (sORP) and capacity for induced oxidative stress (icORP). Diff...

BACKGROUND Anatomic measures of injury burden provide key information for studies of prehospital and in-hospital trauma care. The military version of the Abbreviated Injury Scale [AIS(M)] is used to score injuries in deployed military hospitals. Estimates of total trauma burden are derived from this. These scores are used for categorization of patients, assessment of care quality, and research ...