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Duration of Posttraumatic Amnesia Predicts Neuropsychological and Global Outcome in Complicated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. [PDF]

, 2016
OBJECTIVES: Examine the effects of posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) duration on neuropsychological and global recovery from 1 to 6 months after complicated mild traumatic brain injury (cmTBI). PARTICIPANTS: A total of 330 persons with cmTBI defined as Glasgow
Barber, Jason, Diaz-Arrastia, Ramon, Dikmen, Sureyya S., Hart, Tessa, Hesdorffer, Dale C., Hsu, Nancy H., Jallo, Jack, Novack, Thomas A., Ricker, Joseph, Temkin, Nancy, Zafonte, Ross   +10 more
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The contribution of injury severity, executive and implicit functions to awareness of defi cits after traumatic brain injury (TBI) [PDF]

, 2010
Deficits in self-awareness are commonly seen after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and adversely affect rehabilitative efforts, independence and quality of life (Ponsford, 2004).
Barker, Lynne, Morton, Nicholas
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Worthing Physiological Score vs Revised Trauma Score in Outcome Prediction of Trauma patients; a Comparative Study

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2016
Introduction: Awareness about the outcome of trauma patients in the emergency department (ED) has become a topic of interest. Accordingly, the present study aimed to compare the rapid trauma score (RTS) and worthing physiological scoring system (WPSS ...
Babak Nakhjavan-Shahraki, Mahmoud Yousefifard, Mohammad Javad Hajighanbari, Masoud Baikpour, Jalaledin Mirzay Razaz, Mehdi Yaseri, Kavous Shahsavari, Fatemeh Mahdizadeh, Mostafa Hosseini   +8 more
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The new trauma score (NTS): a modification of the revised trauma score for better trauma mortality prediction

BMC Surgery, 2017
Background Since its introduction, the Revised Trauma Score (RTS) has been widely used to determine the prognosis of trauma patients. Recent studies have revealed a need to change the parameters of the RTS. We have designed a new trauma score (NTS) based
Jin Hee Jeong, Yong Joo Park, Dong Hoon Kim, Tae Yun Kim, Changwoo Kang, Soo Hoon Lee, Sang Bong Lee, Seong Chun Kim, Daesung Lim   +8 more
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Are sternum fractures really indicative of severe trauma?

Annals of Medical Research, 2019
Aim: To investigate the need for echocardiography in cases of sternum fracture through a retrospective analysis of the data of patients treated for post-traumatic sternal fracture. Although sternum fractures are known to be an indicator of the severity of trauma and cardiac injury, it should be evaluated whether this is always the case or whether ...
Kuru, Murat, Şahinoğlu, Tuba
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Association Between Neutrophil Density and Survival in Trauma Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit; a Retrospective Cohort Study

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2023
Introduction: Altered immune responses, in particular neutrophil changes, are perceived to play a key role in immune responses to trauma. This study aimed to evaluate the association of neutrophil changes with patients’ survival in severe multiple ...
Mohebat Vali, Shahram Paydar , Mozhgan Seif , Maryam Hosseini, Pardis Basiri, Golnar Sabetian, Haleh Ghaem   +6 more
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Trauma team conformation in a war-influenced middle-income country in South America: is it possible?

International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020
Introduction Trauma teams (TTs) improve outcomes in trauma patients. A multidisciplinary TT was conformed in September 2015 in a tertiary level I trauma university hospital in southwestern Colombia, a middle-income war-influenced country.
Sandra Carvajal, Francisco L Uribe-Buritica, Ana Maria Ángel-Isaza, María Camila López-Girón, Andres González, Julian Chica, Manuel Benitez, Alberto F García   +7 more
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Trauma and Trichotillomania: A Tenuous Relationship [PDF]

, 2016
Some have argued that hair pulling in trichotillomania (TTM) is triggered by traumatic events, but reliable evidence linking trauma to TTM is limited.
Compton, Scott N., Franklin, Martin E., Houghton, David C., Mathew, Abel S., Neal-Barnett, Angela M., Saunders, Stephen M., Twohig, Michael P., Woods, Douglas W.   +7 more
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Complexity of childhood sexual abuse: predictors of current post-traumatic stress disorder, mood disorders, substance use, and sexual risk behavior among adult men who have sex with men [PDF]

, 2015
Men who have sex with men (MSM) are the group most at risk for HIV and represent the majority of new infections in the United States. Rates of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) among MSM have been estimated as high as 46 %.
Baker, Joshua S., Boroughs, Michael S., Dale, Sannisha K., Ironson, Gail H., O'Cleirigh, Conall, Safren, Steven A., Shipherd, Jillian C., Taylor, S. Wade, Valentine, Sarah E., Wilner, Julianne G.   +9 more
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High-energy blunt pelvic ring injury: dataset of patients and injury characteristics from a severely injured patients’ registry.

Data in Brief, 2022
Since mid-2013, data on high-energy trauma patients admitted to the Emergency Department of the University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland, are prospectively recorded in a dedicated registry.
Silvia Valisena, Anna-Eliane Abboud, Elisabeth Andereggen, Alexandre Ansorge, Axel Gamulin   +4 more
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