HIV Infection Among Rural Trauma Patients: A Blind Serosurvey and...

The American Surgeon;  May 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......seroprevalence rates among rural trauma patients range between 0.15 and 1.32 per cent. A random sample of trauma patients treated at our rural trauma...Five hundred sixty-six of 1315 trauma patients (43%) were tested. Two of the...

Glutamine-enriched enteral feeding in trauma patients: Reduced infectious...

JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......glutamine-enriched enteral nutrition in trauma patients reduced the occurrence of pneumonia...endocrine and metabolic response in trauma patients. Therefore, the reduction in infectious...morbidity seen in glutamine-supplemented trauma patients is most likely not explained by a...

Swallowing Disorders in Trauma Patients: Impact of Tracheostomy

The American Surgeon;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......disorders have not been well-studied in trauma patients with tracheostomy. Swallowing evaluations...occurred in 35 per cent (36 of 102) of trauma patients with or without tracheostomy and in...penetration was observed in 54 per cent of trauma patients (55% with tracheostomy) compared ...

PREHOSPITAL TRIAGE OF TRAUMA PATIENTS: A TRAUMA SURGEON'S PERSPECTIVE

Prehospital Emergency Care;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......complicate the prehospital triage of trauma patients. The best system for a given community...The goal of prehospital triage of trauma patients seems quite simple: to get the right...demonstrated commitment to care for trauma patients would result in improved outcomes...

Hospital and Long-Term Outcome of Trauma Patients with Tracheostomy for...

The American Surgeon;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......suggested a poor prognosis, however, trauma patients may have a better outcome. Data from 113 trauma patients were retrospectively analyzed for...the Social Security Death Index. Trauma patients were young, overwhelmingly male...

A longitudinal evaluation of oxidative stress in trauma patients

JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the course of oxidative stress in trauma patients as measured by antioxidant disappearance...population included 17 adult male trauma patients in an urban level-1 trauma hospital...007) and 13-carotene (p < .007). Trauma patients were divided into more and less severely...

Around-the-clock attending radiology coverage is essential to avoid...

The American Surgeon;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......final readings (FRs) of CT scans of trauma patients we prospectively recorded PRs (done...instituted after FR. In 42 of 383 (11%) trauma patients there was a discrepancy between PR...major resuscitations and operations of trauma patients in order for a hospital to receive...

Intensive care unit outcome of vehicle-related injury in elderly trauma...

The American Surgeon;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......injury in elderly (age >65 years) trauma patients. Several hospital-based studies have...mechanism of injury seen in elderly trauma patients admitted to Level I trauma centers...outcomes of elderly critical care trauma patients with vehiclerelated injuries. The...

One year's trauma mortality experience at Brooke Army Medical Center: Is...

Military Medicine;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......whether air ambulance transportation of trauma patients to the Brooke Army Medical Center...consecutive ambulance-transported trauma patients received at BAMC during the fiscal...September 30, 1996, were reviewed. The 792 trauma patients were composed of 687 patients transported...

WA: Number of trauma patients increasing at hospital

AAP General News (Australia);  August 10, 2003 ;     181 words ...00-00-0000 WA: Number of trauma patients increasing at hospital PERTH, Aug 10 AAP - The number of trauma patients admitted to Western Australia's...threatening. Most of the hospital's major trauma patients were young men who had been involved...

Alcohol detoxification in trauma patients. (adapted from Southern Medical...

American Family Physician;  June 1, 1994 ;     358 words ......alcohol abuse. Hence, the treatment of trauma patients is often complicated by symptoms of alcohol...intravenous ethanol in the detoxification of trauma patients. Among 2,219 trauma patients admitted over a three-year period, 685...

DISTANCE IMPACTS MORTALITY IN TRAUMA PATIENTS WITH AN INTUBATION ATTEMPT

Prehospital Emergency Care;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......a retrospective cohort analysis of trauma patients >14 years old transported to two...associated with increased mortality among trauma patients at all distances from the hospital...strategies for airway management in trauma patients should be considered based on distance...

Management of Pulseless and Apneic Trauma Patients: Are Aggressive...

The American Surgeon;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......prospectively examined the care of trauma patients in extremis on presentation to a tertiary...aggressive measures to resuscitate trauma patients in extremis on presentation, the authors...information from the analysis of the care of trauma patients in extremis on presentation to ...

Glutamine-enriched enteral nutrition increases HLA-DR expression on...

The Journal of Nutrition;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......glutamine concentrations in multi-trauma patients. HLA-DR expression on monocytes is...system and is severely reduced in trauma patients. In vitro monocyte HLA-DR and Fcy...expression on CD14+ monocytes, 55 multi-trauma patients were studied in a randomized, double-blind...

Selective Use of Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Trauma Patients

The American Surgeon;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in the treatment of trauma patients is controversial, and not all level...bypass could be life-saving in select trauma patients with major chest injuries. Hypothermia...tracheobronchial tree.2-7 The use of CPB in trauma patients, however, is not widely ...