Ultrasonographic evaluation of ...
Introduction Rib fractures are the most common injuries resulting from blunt chest trauma. However, costal cartilage fractures are almost invisible ...
What are the predictors of scap ...
Aim To find out the predictors of scapula fractures in high-impact blunt trauma patients and the predictors of missing them in the emergency departm ...
Pediatric fractures: temporal t ...
Purpose Pediatric fractures are common and are often managed by manipulation under general anesthesia (MUA). This study’s aim was to assess the chan ...
Health-related quality of life ...
Purpose This study aimed to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in trauma patients 2 years after discharge from an intensive care unit ...
Gastrointestinal tract perforat ...
Purpose Traumatic perforation of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) poses numerous challenges for surgeons worldwide. We aimed to review our instituti ...
Causes of inpatient death for p ...
Objectives To explore the causes and risk factors of inpatient death for patients with warfare-related limb trauma. Methods A retrospective study i ...
Risk assessment and management ...
new treatments, risk data must be derived from early reports of the few cases done to date combined with extrapolations from other procedures with s ...
Introduction of guidelines to f ...
Purpose Patients treated postoperatively in surgical intensive care units often receive delayed enteral nutrition. We hypothesized that the introduc ...
Endovascular repair of iatrogen ...
Purpose To evaluate the outcome of the management of iatrogenic arterial injuries following knee arthroplasty using a primary endovascular approach. ...
Brachial vessel injuries: high ...
Introduction Reports of arterial injuries from both the civilian and military arenas report the brachial artery as the most frequently injured vesse ...
Implant removal associated comp ...
Purpose The purpose of this study was to analyze the number and type of complications that occurred after fracture implant removal and to investigat ...
Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) and ...
Introduction Several different synthetic and allograft bone graft substitutes are used clinically to treat large bone defects. In contrast to the ‘‘ ...
Prehospital HMG Co-A reductase ...
Introduction 3-Hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl Co-A reductase inhibitors (HMG Co-A reductase inhibitors, statins) are commonly used medications for the co ...
Penetrating carotid artery: unc ...
Carotid arterial injuries are the most difficult and certainly the most immediately life-threatening injuries found in penetrating neck trauma. Thei ...
Intramedullary femoral nailing ...
Purpose In a level 1 university trauma center, an explorative randomized controlled study was performed to compare soft tissue damage and functional ...
Operative exposure and manageme ...
Introduction Axillary vessel injuries are uncommon and challenging injuries encountered by trauma surgeons. Proximity of this vessel to other adjace ...
Hip fracture surgery and perfor ...
Background In the Netherlands, two performance indicators for the treatment of hip fracture patients have been recently implemented. Both indicators ...
Polytrauma in the elderly: spec ...
With an aging and more active older population, an increased incidence of elderly trauma patients, including severely injured geriatric patients, is ...
Teaching in daily clinical prac ...
Teaching is an important part of our medical role as physicians. Though all doctors are usually well prepared for their clinical roles, few are trai ...
Teaching in daily clinical prac ...
Teaching in the clinical setting is challenging; however, it is the location where students apply their learned facts and learn skills and attitudes ...
Clinical evaluation of end caps ...
Background Elastic stable intramedullary nailing (ESIN) may be complicated by the loss of reduction following push out of the nails at the entry sit ...
Health-related quality of life ...
Purpose To study how the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of survivors of penetrating trunk trauma (PTT) changes from pre-morbid status to 6 m ...
Telesurgical evaluation of stab ...
Background We evaluated a robotic telesurgical platform in managing thoracic trauma in an animal model. Study design The da Vinci robot was used to ...
Outcomes following operative an ...
Background Although the non-operative management of closed humeral midshaft fractures has been advocated for years, the increasing popularity of ope ...
Treatment of the displaced femo ...
Purpose Opinions about the optimal treatment of displaced femoral neck fractures in the elderly are still divided. The two main options are internal ...