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A Comparative Study of Injury Severity Scales as Predictors of Mortality in Trauma Patients: Which Scale Is the Best? [PDF]

Bulletin of Emergency and Trauma, 2020
Objective: To compare the injury severity scales as predictors of mortality in trauma patients to search for the best scale.Methods: In a prospective cohort study and systematical random sampling conducted from March to September 2017, trauma patients ...
Mahnaz Yadollahi, Ali Kashkooe, Reza Rezaiee, Kazem Jamali, Mohammad Hadi Niakan   +4 more
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Study on serum miR-185-5p in assessing the injury severity and prognosis of patients with traumatic brain injury [PDF]

Journal of Medical Biochemistry, 2023
Background: This study aims to explore whether serum miR-185-5p levels are related to the injury severity and prognosis of traumatic brain injury patients. Methods: Serum miR-185-5p level was quantified in 120 TBI patients.
Chen AiYu, Tong Xiang, LiZhen Tang, Lu Tao, Wu CaiHong   +4 more
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Association between Cerebrospinal Fluid and Serum Biomarker Levels and Diagnosis, Injury Severity, and Short-Term Outcomes in Patients with Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

Diagnostics, 2023
Acute traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is recognized as a global problem that can lead to a range of acute and secondary complications impacting morbidity and mortality. There is still a lack of reliable diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in patients
Zhihui Yang, Seza Apiliogullari, Yueqiang Fu, Ayah Istanbouli, Sehajpreet Kaur, Iktej Singh Jabbal, Ahmed Moghieb, Zoha Irfan, Robert Logan Patterson, Milin Kurup, Lindsey Morrow, Michael Cohn, Zhiqun Zhang, Jiepei Zhu, Ronald L. Hayes, Helen M. Bramlett, M. Ross Bullock, W. Dalton Dietrich, Michael Y. Wang, Firas Kobeissy, Kevin W. Wang   +20 more
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Understanding the Factors Associated with the Temporal Variability in Crash Severity before, during, and after the COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Order

Safety, 2022
The COVID-19 travel restriction orders have significantly reduced travel and generally lowered the risk of road traffic collisions, but many accounts suggest an increase in risky driving behaviors and consequent fatal crashes during the shelter-in-place ...
Emmanuel Kofi Adanu, Sunday Okafor, Praveena Penmetsa, Steven Jones   +3 more
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Severe pancreatoduodenal injury [PDF]

Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2015
CaseA 30‐year‐old male involved in a traffic accident was brought to our hospital. He was in shock with a rigid abdomen, and a computed tomography scan showed severe pancreatoduodenal injury. He was successfully treated with damage control surgery consisting of peripancreatic packing at the initial surgery followed by a two‐stage ...
Hirotaka, Yamamoto, Hiroaki, Watanabe, Yasuaki, Mizushima, Tetsuya, Matsuoka   +3 more
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Measuring the Severity of Injury [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1980
Attempts have been made to improve the Injury Severity Score (ISS) system of Baker et al. (1974) using plasma lactate data obtained from 277 patients shortly after injury and before treatment. The ISS is based on the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) values of the individual injuries, being the sum of the squares of the values for the three most severely ...
Stoner, H, Heath, D, Yates, D, Frayn, K
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Contribution of Peripheral Injuries to the Symptom Experience of Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Neurotrauma Reports, 2021
Peripheral injuries are common in patients who experience mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). However, the additive or interactive effects of polytrauma on psychosocial adjustment, functional limitations, and clinical outcomes after head injury remain ...
Andrew M. Bryant, Michael A. McCrea, Lindsay D. Nelson   +2 more
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Penetrating trauma victims in three Tehran hospitals, Sina, Shohada, Fayazbakhsh: Epidemiology and management errors [PDF]

Acta Medica Iranica, 2001
This is an observational case series study on penetrating trauma admissions in three teaching hospitals in Tehran from 1996 to 1997. in order to describe the epidemiology and determine the ways of improving treatment of penetrating injuries, we selected ...
"Zargar M, Saeed Modaghegh MH, Rezaishiraz H, Moez Ardalan K "   +3 more
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Injuries in agriculture – injury severity and mortality

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2013
PRINCIPALS: Accidents in agriculture are a problem of global importance. The hazards of working in agriculture are manifold (machines, animals, heights). We therefore assessed injury severity and mortality from accidents in farming. METHODS: We retrospectively analysed all farming accidents treated over a 12-year period in the emergency ...
Pfortmueller CA, Kradolfer D, Kunz M, Lehmann B, Lindner G, Exadaktylos A   +5 more
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A gravidade do trauma em vítimas de traumatismo crânio-encefálico avaliada pelo manual AIS/90 e mapas CAIS/85 La gravedad del trauma en víctimas de traumatismo cráneo-encefálico por medio del manual AIS/90 y mapas CAIS/85 Injury severity measures by AIS/90 manual and CAIS/85 chart in head injured patients

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 1998
Estudo comparativo do uso do manual da ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE (AIS) e dos mapas da CONDENSED ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE (CAIS), como bases para cálculo do INJURY SEVERITY SCORE (ISS) em vítimas de trauma crânio-encefálico.
Regina Marcia Cardoso de Sousa, Maria Sumie Koizumi, Ana Maria Calil, Sonia Aurora A. Grossi, Lisbela Chaib   +4 more
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