Articles Tagged With: trauma
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Electrical and Lightning Injuries
Although electrical injuries are rare, patients who present with these injuries to emergency departments pose particular challenges to emergency physicians and trauma surgeons.
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Ultrasound for Trauma
Point-of-care ultrasound is a critical clinical tool that facilitates the early diagnosis of many life-threatening injuries. As with any test, clinicians need to fully appreciate indications and limitations of the diagnostic tool and integrate where advantageous to their practice.
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Man-made Disaster: In-hospital Management
Man-made disaster directly impacts the emergency department and hospital when a mass casualty situation ensues, and is the focus of this review article. Using contemporary examples and the current literature, what follows is a primer on the causes, injury patterns, resource utilization, triage, and preparation for man-made mass casualty events.
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Pediatric Head Injury
The impact of traumatic brain injury as a leading cause of death and morbidity in the pediatric population cannot be ignored, and significantly impacts any provider who cares for children.
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Damage Control Resuscitation
MONOGRAPH: Exsanguinating hemorrhage is one of (if not the) most common preventable cause of death after trauma.
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Costly Diagnosis Delays can be Avoided with Good Practices
Patient safety experts are finding that system failures are more responsible for diagnosis errors than simply mistakes by individuals.
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Updates in Pediatric Trauma, Part I
MONOGRAPH: New advances in diagnostic evaluation and treatment for the No. 1 cause of death and disability in children and adolescents.
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Pharmacology Watch: HPV Vaccine Now Recommended for Males
In this issue: New recommendations for HPV vaccine; guidelines for treatment of essential tremor; updates on smoking cessation drugs; and FDA actions. -
Abstract & Commentary: Academic ICU Attending Workload: Potential Effects on Teaching, Patient Care, and Workforce Stability
This article reports findings of a task force set up by the Society of Critical Care Medicine in 2008 to study intensivist workforce issues in the face of the ongoing increase in ICU beds and numbers of critically ill patients. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement