conclusions more than half of the patients were disabled after 3 months of trauma. elderly patients, patient with severe trauma, and long hospitalization and patients with extremity injuries were high risk for disability. results the mean disability scores at 1 and 3 months post-injury was 30.3 (9.2) and 18.8 (8.3), respectively and there was a statistical significant difference between disabil...

introduction: more than 50 scoring systems have been published for classification of trauma patients in the field, emergency room, and intensive care settings, so far. the present study aimed to compare the ability of trauma injury severity score (triss) and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (apache) iii in predicting mortality of intensive care unit (icu) admitted trauma patients....

conclusions the seatbelt wearing rate among the study participants was much lower than the 90% rate reported among iranian drivers in 2010. mandating seatbelt use, as in most countries, will be more effective if a combination of factors such as changes in vehicle design, road safety, and driver and passenger behavior are taken into account. background seatbelts are a relatively low-cost safety ...

objective: to record and classify mechanisms of injury and injury severity score (iss) in trauma patients admitted to the largest trauma center in southern iran. methods: this was a prospective cross-sectional study including all the patients who were admitted to nemazee hospital from 2009 to 2010. we recorded the trauma injury information of 1217 patients who were admitted to of emergency room...

objectives: to investigate the differences in death after receiving emergency services in traffic accidents between urban and rural regions, and decompose factors of the gap in langerood, northern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in langrood, northern iran during a 1-year period from 2013 to 2014. the hospital data of traffic crashes were used. data contained those patien...

conclusion our study emphasizes the importance of the preventive strategies for falls in the old age group and road traffic injuries in young males. results in total, 73 trauma patients were registered. the mean age was 40.19 (sd 20.34) years and 67.1% of the patients were male. in general, the most common cause of injury was falls (47.9%), followed by road traffic injury (40.8%). assault and e...

objective: thoracic trauma may be a life-threatening condition. flail chest is a severe chest injury with high mortality rates. surgery is not frequently performed and, in literature, data are controversial. the authors report their experience in the treatment of flail chest by an extracortical internal-external stabilization technique with kirshner’s wires (k-wires). methods: from 2010 to 2015...

conclusions this new suggested scale shows a better value to predict patients’ length of hospital stay compared to iss and niss. however, future studies with larger sample sizes and more confounding factors such as prehospital procedures, intubation and other procedures during admission, should be designed to examine these scoring systems and confirm the results of our study. background trauma ...

background and purpose: decision-making process in thoracolumbar and lumbar burst fracture (tlbf) patients with thoracolumbar injury severity and classification score (tlics) > 4 is remained controversial. on the other hand, the question is whether that the oswestry disability index (odi) can be use to assess to clinical outcomes in these patients . we aimed to study the correlation between the...