Animal-Related Injuries in a Resource-Limited Setting: Experiences from a Tertiary Health Institution in Northwestern Tanzania. [PDF]
Animal related injuries are a major but neglected emerging public health problem and contribute significantly to high morbidity and mortality worldwide. No prospective studies have been done on animal related injuries in our setting.
Chalya, Phillipo L+2 more
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Biloma Presentation after Six Months of Thoracoabdominal Trauma: A Case Report [PDF]
Perforation of biliary tree will result in accumulation of bile as a collection called biloma. Post-traumatic biloma is diagnosed mostly soon after the trauma happened.
Mojtaba Ahmadinejad+2 more
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Blunt traumatic celiac artery avulsion managed with celiac artery ligation and open aorto-celiac bypass. [PDF]
Traumatic celiac artery injuries are rare and highly lethal with reported mortality rates of 38-62%. The vast majority are caused by penetrating trauma with only 11 reported cases due to blunt trauma (Graham et al., 1978; Asensio et al., 2000, 2002 ...
Doben, Andrew R+5 more
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Contemporary Strategies in the Management of Civilian Abdominal Vascular Trauma
The evaluation and management of patients with abdominal vascular trauma or injury requires immediate and effective decision-making in these unfavorable circumstances.
Georgios Karaolanis+5 more
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A novel streamlined trauma response team training improves imaging efficiency for pediatric blunt abdominal trauma patients [PDF]
Background/purpose The morbidity and mortality of children with traumatic injuries are directly related to the time to definitive management of their injuries.
Cross, Keith+5 more
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Outcome of Gunshot Abdominal Injuries
Aim: To describe prevalence, management and factors determining outcomes in patients presenting with gunshot abdominal injuries. Method: We retrospectively analysed all cases of gunshot to the abdomen received at Kenyatta National Hospital from October ...
Neville M. Bonko+7 more
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Prophylactic tracheostomy in aged and poor risk general surgical patients [PDF]
The most common postoperative complications are those involving respiration, and they are especially dangerous to patients classified as poor risks because of age or other handicaps.
Farrell, JJ, Meyer, WH, Starzl, TE
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Lesões abdominais nos traumatizados com fraturas de bacia
OBJETIVO: Analisar as lesões abdominais e seu impacto no prognóstico dos traumatizados com fraturas de bacia MÉTODO: Avaliamos retrospectivamente todos os prontuários das vítimas de trauma fechado com fraturas de bacia admitidos de 1996 a 2000.
José Gustavo Parreira+2 more
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Blunt abdominal aortic injury [PDF]
Blunt abdominal aortic injury (BAAI) is a rare injury with less than 200 cases in the current reported world literature, mostly in case report format. We sought to describe the experience of a high-volume trauma center and to provide a contemporary review of the literature to better understand the natural history and management of this injury.This was ...
Thomas S. Hatsukami+7 more
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9- PREVALENCE OF INTERNAL ABDOMINAL ORGANS� INJURIES IN PATIENTS OPERATED UPON AFTER BLUNT ABDOMINAL TRAUMA. [PDF]
Blunt abdominal trauma may result in multiple severe injuries which make the abdomen difficult to assess and easy to overlook. Unrecognized intra-abdominal injury is a significant cause of preventable death in blunt trauma.
Kamal Ahmad Saeed
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