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New Mechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury [PDF]
The prediction and prevention of traumatic brain injury is a very important aspect of preventive medical science. This paper proposes a new coupled loading-rate hypothesis for the traumatic brain injury (TBI), which states that the main cause of the TBI is an external Euclidean jolt, or SE(3)-jolt, an impulsive loading that strikes the head in several ...
A Kadic+67 more
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Post‐traumatic stress disorder: a state‐of‐the‐art review of evidence and challenges
Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is arguably the most common psychiatric disorder to arise after exposure to a traumatic event. Since its formal introduction in the DSM‐III in 1980, knowledge has grown significantly regarding its causes, maintaining
Richard A Bryant
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Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a long-lasting and debilitating psychological disorder that affects a large portion of the population.
Harald Bækkelund+4 more
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Warning signals? An explorative study of distant recollections of the moments before a disaster
Background: How do we remember what happened shortly before a traumatic experience? There has been little focus on the temporal context of trauma memories, but a few studies suggest that aspects of what happened in the moments prior to a traumatic ...
Ines Blix+4 more
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Traumatic asphyxia is probably much more common than the surgical literature shows and should always be kept in mind as a possible complication of injuries of the chest and abdomen.Traumatic asphyxia or Perte's syndrome results from a severe crush injury causing sudden compression of the thorax.
Sevinc Tiryaki+3 more
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Background Female genital cutting (FGC) may cause a series of health problems that require specialized healthcare. General practitioners (GPs) are gatekeepers to specialized healthcare services in Norway.
Mai Mahgoub Ziyada+4 more
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Addressing Ethical Issues in Studying Men’s Traumatic Stress [PDF]
Like many human experiences, traumatic stress is highly gendered. Over the past several decades, a sub-stantial number of empirical studies have explored ethical issues in traumatic stress research.
Affleck, W.+11 more
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Objective The patellar inferior pole fracture is typically comminuted. Hence, achieving firm fixation and early activity is highly challenging. In this article, we employed the method of wire cerclage through a generated bone hole to reduce the fracture.
Rong Chen+6 more
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Insights into the Roles of B Cells in Patients with Sepsis
Sepsis is a life-threatening yet common disease, still posing high mortality worldwide. Sepsis-related deaths primarily occur during immunosuppression; the disease can hamper the numbers and function of B cells, which mediate innate and adaptive immune ...
Xijie Dong+5 more
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