Background. Penetrating spine injuries can cause catastrophic complications to the patient, and it demands immense medical care minimize insult. Mainly, occurs in military field; however, has become more prevalent among civilians due gun availability. The thoracic is most affected part, followed by cervical lumbar spine. Case report. A 15-year-old teenage boy had a penetrating injury (T10) vert...

OBJECTIVE Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta is a life-threatening injury requiring urgent surgical intervention. Despite recent improvements in resuscitation and emergency operative techniques, the outcomes of patients with multiple injuries are still associated with a high mortality rate. We retrospectively examined the preoperative demographic data, associated complications and mortalit...

BACKGROUND: Thoracic injury overall is the third most common cause of trauma following injury to the head and extremities. Thoracic trauma has a high morbidity and mortality, accounting for approximately 25% of trauma-related deaths, second only to head trauma. More than 70% of cases of blunt thoracic trauma are due to motor vehicle collisions, with the remainder caused by falls or blows from b...

Study design Randomized experimental study. Objective Compared to able-bodied people, patients with paraplegia due thoracic spinal cord injury (SCI) are at an increased risk of heat illnesses during exercise impaired thermoregulatory responses. To overcome this limitation, we investigated the performance three phase change material (PCM) cooling vests different melting temperatures (Eijsvogels,...

Injury to nerves by dissection of the neck is well recognised. A case report of injury to the long thoracic nerve follows, which has not been previously described.