Vital signs of severely injured children
Systolic blood pressures of severely injured children are very often hypertensive compared with APLS ‘norms’. A lower pulse rate is […]
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European Trauma Bleeding Guidelines updated
Update 2013: since this post was written in 2010, new guidelines have been written entitled: “Management of bleeding and […]
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Battlefield resuscitation
An excellent review of the current British military practice to prevent and treat the acute coagulopathy of trauma shock (ACoTS) […]
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Sorting ABCD issues pre-hospital
Prospectively collected data on 727 major trauma patients from a Portugese trauma centre registry enabled the comparison of mortality between […]
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Spine immobilisation in penetrating trauma
In a retrospective study of 45,284 penetrating trauma patients, unadjusted mortality was twice as high in the 4.3% of patients […]
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NIV in chest trauma
ICU patients with thoracic trauma who had no other indication for intubation than marked hypoxaemia (pO2/FiO2 < 200 mmHg) were […]
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Estimating burn survival
Even though we might not know it’s called that, many of us are familiar with the Baux score, defined as […]
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Guidelines on penetrating abdominal trauma
Image: The topographical anatomy of the thorax and abdomen of the horse (Page 95) BHL9403827 by Bradley, O. Charnock, public […]
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CT cervical spine in obtunded trauma patients
Prolonged collar use and spinal immobilisation in ICU patients can contribute to pressure sores, increased intracranial pressure, venous obstruction, difficulties […]
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Better TBI outcome with HEMS
A retrospective study from Italy compared outcomes of head injured patients cared for by a ground ambulance service (GROUND) with […]