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Immunoparalysis after multiple trauma

Injury, 2007
The immunological sequelae following multiple trauma constitute an ongoing challenge in critical care management. The overall immune response to multiple trauma is a multilevel complex interdependently involving neurohormonal, cellular and haemodynamic factors. Immunoparalysis is characterised by a reduced capacity to present antigens via downregulated
Sven K, Tschoeke, Wolfgang, Ertel
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Multiple trauma and the burn patient

The American Journal of Surgery, 1989
Multiple trauma greatly complicates the care of the burn patient, whereas a burn often complicates the diagnosis and treatment of the trauma patient. One hundred seventy-six of 3,550 consecutive acute burn admissions received nonburn trauma. The majority of injuries were sustained in motor vehicle accidents (70), escaping fire (32), electrical burns ...
G F, Purdue, J L, Hunt
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Methanol intoxication in multiple trauma

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1987
Management of inflicted or self-inflicted trauma to accomplish homicide or suicide is no novelty in the practice of medicine. However, it takes an astute clinician to recognize serious poisoning in the midst of life-threatening injuries. We describe two cases where homicide and suicide attempts were accompanied with the ingestion of methanol.
K, Saxena, K, Lerud, J J, Cicero
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PNEUMONIA IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE TRAUMA

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 1995
This article examines the features of nosocomial pneumonia in the subpopulation of patients with multiple trauma. Epidemiology, trauma-associated risk factors, diagnosis, microbiology, therapy, and prevention are reviewed. While some issues may overlap with critically ill patients in general, differences in approach and management will be discussed.
D I, McRitchie, J G, Matthews, M P, Fink
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Multiple Trauma and the Elderly Patient

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1990
The elderly patient is likely to suffer severer immediate effects and more long-term complications from equivalent forces of injury. However, with an aggressive approach to evaluation, monitoring, and treatment, there is hope for successful recovery in the majority of cases.
R E, Martin, G, Teberian
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Multiple trauma

1997
Abstract A 25-year-old female was found alone in her car, having collided with a tree. lttook 1 hour to extricate her from the wreckage. During that time she was reportedly ‘semi;.conscious’ but deteriorated in the ambulance. On arrival in the emergency room her BP was unrecordable, respiratory rate was .25/min, and she had a Glasgow ...
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Visual abnormalities with multiple trauma

Surgical Neurology, 1984
The diversity of pathogenetic mechanisms involved in posttraumatic visual impairment was reviewed in a study of the hospital records of 24 patients admitted with multiple injuries. Most major visual abnormalities occurred in young people (average age 33 years) who presented with a wide range of overall severity of injury (injury severity score 13-47 ...
K V, Elisevich, R M, Ford, D P, Anderson, J G, Stratford, P M, Richardson   +4 more
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On Trauma, Perversion, and “Multiple Personality”

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1996
The role of perverse sexuality as an organizing influence in “multiple personality” is explored in this paper. Following a brief review of psychoanalytic thinking on sexual trauma and perversion, the author discusses his own views on dissociation and “multiple personality.” A clinical case is then presented in which transsexualism, homosexuality, and ...
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PRIORITIES IN THE MULTIPLE TRAUMA PATIENT

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1998
The primary goal in caring for the traumatized patient is to provide effective resuscitative interventions while minimizing the time from injury to definitive care. The emergency physician is often called on to provide initial stabilization and resuscitation, which is done most effectively if one is well versed in trauma care and has an organized ...
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Multiple Trauma

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1979
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