Confidentiality: reporting gunshot and knife wounds
The UK General Medical Council provides guidance on the reporting to police of gun and knife wounds. The guidance describes […]
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Trauma
Care of severely injured patient
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Thoracostomy in blunt traumatic arrest
37 patients with blunt traumatic cardiac arrest underwent attempted resuscitation by a HEMS crew over a four year period. Chest […]
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Not such a B.I.G. success in the field?
Success rates with the bone injection gun were 71% (10 out of 14) in children <16 years and 73% (19 […]
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Ballistic penetrating neck injury and the risk of immobilisation
British military physicians reported the outcomes of patients sustaining penetrating neck injury from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Three quarters […]
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Prehospital Hypocapnia and Poor Outcome After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Patients admitted to a level 1 trauma centre with traumatic brain injury whose end-tidal CO2 was kept with the Brain […]
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Is cervical spine protection always necessary following penetrating neck injury?
This short cut review in the Best Bets format attempted to answer the question: “is cervical spine protection always necessary […]
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Spinal imaging and immobilisation may be unnecessary in many GSW patients
A retrospective review of 4204 patients sustaining gunshot wounds (GSW) to the head, neck or torso examined the incidence of […]
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First Aid for Burns
A review of burn first aid treatments highlights the paucity of evidence on which to make firm recommendations. The authors […]
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Spinal Cord Injury Guidelines
The Paralyzed Veterans of America produce a number of evidence-based guidelines for management of spinal cord injury and its complications […]
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Pre-hospital intubation for head injury: ?no benefit
A systematic review of pre-hospital intubation for head injured patients failed to show evidence of benefit of tracheal intubation or […]