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 ...
School-related injuries: a retr ...
Purpose Children and adolescents spend up to 50% of their time at school. The purpose of this study was to assess injury patterns of school accident ...
Toward a new definition of ‘ref ...
Definitions, by necessity, may change or need to be changed to accommodate situations that arise. The United Nations recognized that the emergence o ...
Isolated blunt chest injury lea ...
Introduction The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a severe and frequently seen complication in multi-trauma patients. ARDS is caused by ...
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 ...
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 ...
Traumatic limb amputations at a ...
Introduction The purpose of this study was to analyze the epidemiology and outcomes after traumatic amputation of the upper (UEA) and lower (LEA) ex ...
Influence of routine computed t ...
Introduction Many scoring systems have been proposed to predict the survival of trauma patients. This study was performed to evaluate the influence ...
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 ...
Prehospital triage, discrepancy ...
Background The timely provision of emergency medical services might be influenced by discrepancies in triagesetting between emergency medical dispat ...
The association between depress ...
Introduction The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between pain and depressive mood amongst persons with limb amputations, and ...
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 ...
Flexor tendon repair using a ne ...
Introduction The purpose of this experimental study was to evaluate the biomechanical characteristics of two new four-strand core suture techniques ...
Doppler ultrasound for the asse ...
Introduction The type and need for follow-up of non-operatively managed blunt splenic injuries remain controversial. The use of Doppler ultrasound t ...
Radial head arthroplasty with a ...
Background In comminuted radial head fractures, arthroplasty is an alternative treatment to open reduction and internal fixation or radial head exci ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Operative exposure and manageme ...
Introduction Axillary vessel injuries are uncommon and challenging injuries encountered by trauma surgeons. Proximity of this vessel to other adjace ...
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 ...
Multidetector computed tomograp ...
Purpose The purpose of this study was to analyze the multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) morphologic characteristics of non-aortic acute vascul ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ‘‘ ...
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 ...