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Management of professional and specialized medical treatment in gunshot wounds of calvaria soft tissues

open access: yesUkrainian Neurosurgical Journal, 2016
Research objective. To analyze aspects of gunshot wounds of head soft tissues, their combination to brain injury and on this basis to develop tactics and the principles of assistance at different stages of medical care in compliance of the ...
Andriy Danchin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wound specific quality of life after blast or gunshot injury: Validation of the wound QoL instrument

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
Background Acute blast or gunshot wounds have a negative effect on the patients’ health related quality of life (HRQoL). No validated instrument exists to assess the HRQoL of patients with such wounds.
Andreas Älgå   +2 more
doaj  

Beyond Collective Victimhood: How Diverse Conflict Knowledge Relates to Community Cohesion

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In conflict‐affected societies, collective victimization can undermine social cohesion or foster narrow ingroup bonding and parochialism. We examine whether the possibility to know and freely communicate about diverse conflict experiences, which go beyond collective (ingroup) victimhood, can serve as a resource for community cohesion (i.e ...
Sandra Penić   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

GUNSHOT WOUND OF THE BOWELS. [PDF]

open access: yesJAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1905
Patient. —June 18, 1905, a girl, 13 years of age, while carelessly handling a 22-caliber rifle, shot herself in the abdomen one and one-half inches to the right and slightly below the middle of a line drawn from the umbilicus to the os pubis. She resided at a farmhouse ten miles in the country.
openaire   +2 more sources

Is Ophthalmology Consult Needed for Acute Orbital Fractures?

open access: yesThe Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Failure to recognize concomitant ocular injury in orbital fracture patients is a feared consequence of evaluation in the acute setting. These injuries and their accompanying functional sequelae range in severity, and reconstructive surgeons need to be sensitive to the possibility of major ocular injuries that could potentially have serious ...
Katherine L. Webb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Penetrating Laryngeal Trauma: Management of Severe Injuries Without Open Reduction Internal Fixation

open access: yesThe Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
Thyroid and cricoid cartilage fractures that are displaced or have multiple fracture lines are traditionally managed with open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF). In practice, patients with penetrating laryngeal trauma may have small fragments of cartilage that are difficult to reduce and fixate.
Helen Hieu Nguyen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subcutaneous and visceral fat are associated with worse outcomes in gunshot injuries but not stab injuries to the torso

open access: yesTrauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2023
Purpose The effect of obesity in penetrating trauma outcomes is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a protective effect of subcutaneous or visceral fat from stab and gunshot wounds.Methods 443 patients admitted after
Christopher Mejias   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Endoscopic Management of a Hypopharyngeal‐Subglottic Fistula: Case Series and Literature Review

open access: yesThe Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
A rare complication of prolonged intubation or laryngeal radiation is destruction of the posterior cricoid cartilage with resultant hypopharyngeal‐subglottic fistula leading to aspiration and inability to consume a regular diet. We describe a step‐by‐step endoscopic approach to the closure of a hypopharyngeal‐subglottic fistula.
Lexie Kessler   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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