trauma is a leading cause of death and disability around the world. injuries are responsible for about six million deaths annually, of which ninety percent occur in developing countries. in iran, injuries are the most common cause of death among age groups below fifty. trauma system development is a systematic and comprehensive approach to injury prevention and treatment whose effectiveness has...

trauma is the fourth cause of death at all age groups with socio-economic costs which caused more than 6 million deaths in the world in 2000. despite promising trend in improving many aspects of health case and treatment in the last decade in our country, little attention has been paid to the subject of registering trauma on an international standard. effective practical research specially in q...

patients and methods from april 2009 to november 2011, all patients with gu injuries referred to our hospital were studied. the data including age, sex, type of injury, mechanism of trauma, and prognosis of patients was collected and analyzed. results from a total of 3450 patients, 66 (1.91%) had injuries of the urogenital system; 49(74.24%) were male and 17(25.75%) female. the patients’ mean a...

introduction trauma is the most common cause of death in people aged 1–44 years and the third leading cause of death regardless of age. early diagnosis can shorten the time of emergency care and a quick transfer of patients to a treatment center. objective this study evaluates the mgap scoring system to predict mortality in trauma patients. materials and methods in this cross-sectional study, 5...

posttraumatic cerebral infarction is a rare complication and is an indicator of poor clinical outcome of head-trauma in spite of appropriate medical and surgical interventions. cerebellar infarction following head trauma is also very rare and only a few reported cases are available in literatures. a 2-year-old child sustained head injury in a car accident and underwent surgery because of cerebr...

background: in addition of the socio-economics costs, trauma is the 4th cause of death at all age groups, in 2000, trauma was caused more than 6 million deaths in the world. despite promising trend in improving many aspects of health care and treatment in the last decade in our country, little attention has been paid to the subject of registering trauma on an international standard. effective p...

conclusions the mgap scoring system can be used as an appropriate scoring system to predict mortality in triage trauma patients. results patients were divided into three groups : scores of less than 18, 18 - 22 and greater than 22; in which the mortality rates were 75.2%, 9.5% and 0.1%, respectively (p < 0.0001). the best cut-off point was 22 in our study, and the mgap scoring system had 93.7% ...