• For example, the Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS), which is widely used to predict mortality in injured patients, was originally developed by Boyd et al. (wikipedia.org)
  • Injuries are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity. (springer.com)
  • However, trauma mortality prediction in individual patients by any scoring system is limited and is in general no better than good clinical judgment. (medscape.com)
  • The ability to predict outcome from trauma (ie, mortality) is perhaps the most fundamental use of injury severity scoring, a use that arises from the patient's and the family's desires to know the prognosis. (medscape.com)
  • In trauma severity scoring, mortality is the outcome that has elicited the most interest. (medscape.com)
  • Delayed admission to appropriate care has been shown increase mortality following traumatic brain injury (TBI). (biomedcentral.com)
  • They specifically looked at 28-day mortality, and tried to tease out the relation to injury severity. (thetraumapro.com)
  • Traffic accident injuries represent an importt patients who sustained injury within 1 week tant proportion of injurytrelated morbidity prior to presentation to ERs and were hospitt and mortality among young people [ 2 ]. (who.int)
  • We aimed to compare the immuno-inflammatory features according to organ failure severity and in-ICU mortality. (springeropen.com)
  • Analysis of plasma biomarkers at days 0 and 3-4 according to organ failure worsening (increase in SOFA score) and 60-day mortality. (springeropen.com)
  • After adjustment on SOFA score and time from symptom onset to first dosage, IL-6 and CRP remained significantly associated with mortality. (springeropen.com)
  • Low tidal volume, moderate to high PEEP, or protective ventilation were not associated with mortality and lower incidence of ARDS in patients with acute brain injury undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Although there is no consensus regarding the criteria that should be used to indicate angiotomography for BCVI diagnosis, we conclude that the criteria used in the current study led to a diagnosis of BCVI in 0.93% of 2,467 trauma patients, BCVI injuries were associated with more severe traumas and did not affect mortality. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious hazard to human health and is characterized by high rates of disability and mortality. (aging-us.com)
  • The ability to predict survival after trauma is perhaps the most fundamental use of injury severity scoring, Furthermore, injury severity scoring can provide objective correlations with resource utiliziation such as length of stay and costs of treatment, as well as inform clinical decisions regarding management of injuries of specific severity. (medscape.com)
  • Injury severity scoring is indispensable in stratifying patients into comparable groups for prospective clinical trials. (medscape.com)
  • Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common clinical syndrome characterized by rapid deterioration of renal function. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A total of 1972 US military personnel who sustained a blast-related injury during military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan were identified from clinical records. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Clinical assessment of encephalopathy severity is useful for an early identification of at-risk neonates who may benefit from neuroprotective therapies. (bmj.com)
  • A narrative synthesis is presented due to inability to meta-analyse results due to clinical and statistical heterogeneity. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A multimodal approach to prognostication, including continuous electroencephalography (EEG) patterns, clinical assessment of initial illness severity, MR imaging, spontaneous and evoked potentials, and serum biomarkers, has been recommended. (ajnr.org)
  • The authors then conducted univariate and multivariate analyses to investigate correlations between metabolic patterns and TBI severity, clinical descriptors of TBI, and extracranial injury. (medscape.com)
  • The subject has a Clinical Global Impression (CGI) of Severity for Suicidal Ideation and Behavior (SI/B) (CGIS-SI/B) score of =4 predose on Day 1. (who.int)
  • Assessing outcomes objectively is challenging, but the evolution of injury severity scoring systems with sufficient precision and reproducibility now permits trauma centers to compare their processes and outcomes, facilitating identification of best practices that form the foundations of quality improvement programs. (medscape.com)
  • Dr. Staudenmayer was promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery in 2016, and continues her research, policy and advocacy work to improve the care and outcomes for patients with traumatic injuries and critical surgical illnesses. (stanford.edu)
  • Developing a valid method for assessing mandibular injury severity could permit standardized comparisons of treatment -specific outcomes between and among various mandibular fracture studies. (bvsalud.org)
  • Secondary brain insults after traumatic brain injury such as electrolyte dysfunctions are associated with poor outcomes. (annalsofafricansurgery.com)
  • These bad outcomes may be associated with secondary brain insults such as electrolyte abnormalities that arise from inflammatory and biochemical cascades initiated by the primary injury insult to the brain (9, 17, 18). (annalsofafricansurgery.com)
  • Blast injury emerged as a primary source of morbidity among US military personnel during the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and led to an array of adverse health outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • TSS is associated with basal ganglia injury on MRI and later adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in cooled infants with NE. (bmj.com)
  • Patient outcomes following a minor polytrauma are often worse than those with a single severe injury. (medsci.org)
  • We hypothesize that malignant EEG patterns are associated with greater extent of brain injury evident on MR imaging, which would explain the typically poor outcomes within this subset of patients. (ajnr.org)
  • This study will provide evidence to optimize primary decompressive craniectomy application and assess outcomes and risks for mass lesions in severe traumatic brain injury. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The investigators also created a statistical model to see whether serum metabolites could predict patient outcomes, determined by a Glasgow Outcomes Scale (extended) score of 4 (upper severe disability) vs greater than 4. (medscape.com)
  • Although, decisions for individual patients should never be based solely on a statistically derived injury severity score, scoring systems can nonetheless serve to estimate quantitatively the level of acuity of injured patients that are applied to adjustments in hospital outcome assessments. (medscape.com)
  • Researchers use multiple independent variables (eg, age, injury severity) to predict the dependent variable (or outcome). (medscape.com)
  • However, scoring systems can serve to estimate quantitatively the level of acuity of injured patients that are applied to adjustments in hospital outcome assessments. (medscape.com)
  • Basic demographic information, injury severity characteristics and outcome data were compared between these two groups. (smj.org.sg)
  • We examined the association of Total Sarnat Score (TSS) with brain injury on neonatal magnetic resonance (MR) and adverse neurodevelopmental outcome (NDO) (death or moderate or severe disability) at 2 years of age in 145 infants undergoing therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal encephalopathy. (bmj.com)
  • Paramedic administration of analgesia was associated with a better physiologic severity score (PSS) outcome ( p = 0.01). (biomedcentral.com)
  • The exact role of ventilatory management on the outcome of patients with a severe brain injury needs to be more accurately delineated. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Wong LGrande CMMunster AM Burns and associated nonthermal trauma: an analysis of management, outcome, and relation to the Injury Severity Score. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Regional hippocampal or basal ganglia injury was associated with a bad outcome regardless of electroencephalography findings. (ajnr.org)
  • The primary endpoint is favorable outcome according to the Extended Glasgow Outcome Score (5-8) at 12 months. (biomedcentral.com)
  • METHODS: Data involving agricultur al injuries were collected from the Iowa Trauma Registry from January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2011. (cdc.gov)
  • Methods A retrospective review of trauma patients from 2011 to 2018 was performed at an American College of Surgeons-verified level 1 trauma center to identify the diagnostic accuracy of CT scan for acute diaphragm injury. (highwire.org)
  • The final prognostic model included age, systolic blood pressure, Glasgow Coma Scale, heart rate, respiratory rate and mechanism of injury. (researchsquare.com)
  • The mechanism of injury differs depending on type of warfare, weapons and military protective equipment. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In recent civil wars, gunshot and explosion injuries have been reported as main mechanism of injury. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Patients younger than 16 years old and those with cardiac arrest on arrival, penetrating mechanism of injury, Injury Severity Score of less than 9, and those who had not undergone contrast-enhanced CT scans of the torso were excluded. (ceemjournal.org)
  • The groups were similar in terms of age, sex, Injury Severity Score, percentage Injury Severity Score greater than 15 (16-17.1%), and mechanism of injury (24-29% penetrating). (omeka.net)
  • Mechanism of injury in burn-only and burn-trauma patients. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Statistical descriptive analyses were carried out by producing frequency tables. (unive.it)
  • The data analyzed are presented as mean ± standard deviation, and statistical analyses included Chi-square and Fisher's exact tests, and the Mann-Whitney test. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Statistical Analyses. (cdc.gov)
  • Anatomic scoring system that provides an overall score for patients with multiple injuries. (bmj.com)
  • Injury severity characteristics included anatomic and physiologic measures of injury severity, namely ISS and Revised Trauma Score (RTS), respectively. (smj.org.sg)
  • Subjects with anatomic evidence of diffuse brain injury were less likely to have malignant electroencephalography patterns. (ajnr.org)
  • In 1969, researchers developed the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) to grade the severity of individual injuries. (medscape.com)
  • ABSTRACT In Saudi Arabia, road traffic crashes are becoming a serious public health problem and there are no recent, large-scale, published reports discussing maternal and fetal injuries. (who.int)
  • Utilizes Abbreviated Injury Scale/Injury Severity Scores (AIS/ISS) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) codes to compile indicators and statistic for use by the Trauma Medical Director and Hospital Leadership Team. (lexmed.com)
  • Specifically: "Patients younger than 50 years (old) reported lower subjective level of pain and higher Tegner activity scale (less disability) at baseline and had significantly better Lysholm knee scoring scale (looking for improvements in pain, instability, locking, swelling, limp, stair climbing, squatting and need for support. (caringmedical.com)
  • Greenspan LMcLellan BAGreig H Abbreviated Injury Scale and Injury Severity Score: a scoring chart. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Elopement risk was associated with autism severity, increasing, on average, 9% for every 10-point increase in Social Responsiveness Scale T score (relative risk 1.09, 95% confidence interval: 1.02, 1.16). (cdc.gov)
  • The subject has a Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) total score of =28 predose on Day 1. (who.int)
  • Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) with a history of at least one actual attempt, or if the attempt was interrupted or aborted, is judged to have been serious in intent in the investigator's opinion. (who.int)
  • Some of the reported risk factors ( e.g. patient's age, diagnosis on hospital admission and severity of illness) cannot be changed. (ersjournals.com)
  • This study aims to evaluate the effects of prehospital analgesia on physiologic trauma severity indicators and compare the effect of ketamine and pentazocine on those indicators. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Physiologic severity scores were calculated based on rated values for respiratory rate, blood pressure, and consciousness. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Prehospital analgesia for trauma victims improves physiologic severity indicators in a low-resource trauma system. (biomedcentral.com)
  • BOSTON - Serum levels of several common metabolites appear to be good biomarkers for estimating the severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and may serve as predictors of prognosis, Finnish investigators report. (medscape.com)
  • Decanoic acid and some of these other metabolites that they're looking at are not traditional biomarkers," said Donald Marion, MD, MSc, senior consultant with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. (medscape.com)
  • An increasing number of evidence suggests that miRNAs may act as potential biomarkers for pancreatic injury [ 19 - 23 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • ABSTRACT We studied motorcycle-related injuries in Tehran from 23 August 1999 to 21 September 2000 in 6 hospitals. (who.int)
  • Central nervous damage was significantly more common in gunshot than explosion injuries ( p = 0.015). (biomedcentral.com)
  • War injuries are complex, requiring specialized knowledge and interdisciplinary assessment for adequate patient and intercultural management. (biomedcentral.com)
  • TSS was associated with basal ganglia/thalamic injury on conventional MR (p=0.03) and thalamic N-acetyl aspartate on MR spectroscopy (R 2 =0.16, p=0.004) at 2 weeks of age, and Bayley Composite Cognitive (R 2 =0.18, p=0.01), Motor (R 2 =0.15, p=0.02) and Language (R 2 =0.11, p=0.01) Scores at 2 years of age after adjustment for seizures at the time of neurological assessment. (bmj.com)
  • In addition to the baseline assessment at a mean of 1.3 months after injury, evaluations for secondary ADHD were performed at 6, 12, and 18 months, as well as a mean of 3.4 and 6.8 years after admission for TBI. (medscape.com)
  • An UCCAO caused a slight cerebral ischemia (cerebral blood flow [CBF] 70%) without hypotension (MABP 85 mmHg), systemic inflammation, multiple organs injuries, or neurological injury. (medsci.org)
  • An HS caused a moderate cerebral ischemia (52% of the original CBF levels), a moderate hypotension (MABP downed to 22 mmHg), systemic inflammation, and peripheral organs injuries. (medsci.org)
  • However, combined an UCCAO and an HS caused a severe cerebral ischemia (18% of the original CBF levels), a moderate hypotension (MABP downed to 17 mmHg), systemic inflammation, peripheral organs damage, and neurological injury, which can be attenuated by whole body cooling. (medsci.org)
  • They assessed individual risk factors, such as age and severity of injury, as well as maternal education, family functioning, and other possible environmental predictors for secondary ADHD. (medscape.com)
  • We developed a simple score (Bleeding Audit Triage Trauma score) to predict death from bleeding. (researchsquare.com)
  • Several scoring systems have been developed to predict the need for massive transfusion (MT) in severely injured trauma patients. (ceemjournal.org)
  • The combination of a high volume injury with poor prognosis in one-third of injuries, suggests that being able to predict those individuals with expected poor recovery would be of considerable value to injured individuals and healthcare providers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Cite this: Brain Metabolites Predict Severity, Prognosis of TBI - Medscape - Oct 24, 2014. (medscape.com)
  • Field trauma scoring also is used to facilitate rational prehospital triage decisions, thereby minimizing the time from injury occurrence to definitive management. (medscape.com)
  • Validation of the BATT score for prehospital risk stratification of traumatic haemorrhagic death: Usefulness for tranexamic acid treatment criteria. (researchsquare.com)
  • Similarly, this technique can be used retrospectively to identify and control for differences in baseline injury severity between patient populations. (medscape.com)
  • Baseline IL-6 levels positively correlated with organ failure severity. (springeropen.com)
  • The commonest musculoskeletal injury was fracture: tibial fracture with 509 cases (49.8%) comprised the largest proportion. (who.int)
  • Ankle sprains account for the majority of ankle injuries and therefore represent one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Bold indicates statistical significance. (bmj.com)
  • The level of statistical significance was set at a P value less than or equal to .05. (bvsalud.org)
  • Only the time to the OR reached statistical significance. (omeka.net)
  • Preparation for management of injuries included hygienic and isolation protocols, organization of interpreters and intercultural training. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The K6 identifies community cases based on severity of symptoms common to mental disorders. (cdc.gov)
  • Patterns were similar for the posttraumatic stress disorder checklist for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth edition and for depression symptom severity. (msdmanuals.com)
  • A resuscitation from an HS regards as a reperfusion insult which may induce neurological injury in patients with an UCCAO disease. (medsci.org)
  • The resuscitation after an HS causes a reperfusion or reoxygenation insult [ 2 - 4 ], gut injury, and multiple organ dysfunctions [ 5 , 6 ]. (medsci.org)
  • Both in vitro and in vivo models of cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury presented a sharp increase in NRP-1 expression. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The metabolic patterns observed were unique to the TBI and showed no strong correlations with extracranial injuries," he said at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) 2014 Annual Meeting here. (medscape.com)
  • The practice of these sports is related to traumatic injuries, some of which are severe and/or life threatening. (unive.it)
  • Conclusion Severe traumatic injuries occur among skiers and snowboarders, and preventive measures such as the use of helmets and educational programs, are necessary. (unive.it)
  • Our previous work showed that lower Young's modulus (E) of PS-containing deformable nano-liposomes would greatly affect PS-receptor-mediated macrophage responses, including cellular internalization, anti-inflammatory and pro-healing cytokine production, but the synergistic effects of drug-loaded PS-containing deformable nano-liposomes on macrophage-based therapy for inflammatory injuries remain much less understood [ 13 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To our best knowledge, it is the first study that integrated miR-127 and the inflammatory injuries of the pancreas and the lung. (hindawi.com)
  • For cases of severe traumatic brain injury, during primary operation, neurosurgeons usually face a dilemma of whether or not to remove the bone flap after mass lesion evacuation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In the present study, we designed a prospective, randomized, controlled trial to clarify the effect of decompressive craniectomy in severe traumatic brain injury patients with mass lesions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Severe traumatic brain injury (STBI) is a major cause of death in young adults in developed countries [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Approximately one in four children hospitalized after mild to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) develop secondary attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ), new research shows. (medscape.com)
  • The study purpose was to assess the validity of the Mandible Injury Severity Score (MISS) developed by Shetty et al (J Oral Maxillofac Surg 65663, 2007) by measuring the association between the MISS and postoperative complications , operative time , and length of hospital stay (LOS) after operative treatment of isolated mandibular fractures . (bvsalud.org)
  • The objective of present study was to assess the effects of MK-886 and DITPA on renal I/R injury. (biomedcentral.com)
  • More recently, physicians suggested that injury severity scoring can provide objective information for end-of-life decision-making and resource allocation. (medscape.com)
  • These results show that metabolic patterns could provide an objective means of estimating TBI severity, based on the host metabolic response to injury," Dr Posti said. (medscape.com)
  • Objectives To identify the incidence, injury patterns and associated risk factors of severe and polytraumatic injuries in South Tyrol. (unive.it)
  • The incidence of pelvic injury in this series is higher than in previous work. (openorthopaedicsjournal.com)
  • The incidence rate in the United States general population is 2.15 per 1000 person-years, with sporting activity accounting for half of all injuries [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The incidence of this type of injury is difficult to determine as many emergency room patients are neurologically asymptomatic. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The incidence of this type of injury is difficult to evaluate as many emergency room patients are neurologically asymptomatic or have symptoms attributed to cranial trauma or to other associated injuries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Many other medical scales used to assess severity of a patient have been developed using logistic regression. (wikipedia.org)
  • Multilevel logistic regression explored relationships between psychological morbidity 1 month post-injury and MID in HRQoL over the 12 months after injury. (springer.com)
  • Risk factors for severe injuries were evaluated using logistic regression with robust variance estimators. (unive.it)
  • Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability among the young around the world [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Serum sodium abnormalities are common in traumatic brain injury (TBI), and are usually associated with the primary brain injury or interventions such as hyperosmolar therapies used in the management of raised intracranial pressure (1, 2). (annalsofafricansurgery.com)
  • 145 mmol/L, can result from a primary brain injury resulting in central diabetes insipidus or as a result of hyperosmolar therapies such as the use of hypertonic saline (3, 4). (annalsofafricansurgery.com)
  • This study aimed to investigate whether resuscitation after a hemorrhagic shock (HS) and/or mild cerebral ischemia caused by a unilateral common carotid artery occlusion (UCCAO) can cause brain injury and concomitant neurological dysfunction, and explore the potential mechanisms. (medsci.org)
  • When combined with an HS, an UCCAO is associated with ischemic neuronal injury in the ipsilateral hemisphere of adult rat brain, which can be attenuated by therapeutic hypothermia. (medsci.org)
  • NRP-1 can produce neuroprotective effects against I/R injury to the brain by activating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway and promoting mitochondrial structural repair and functional recovery, which may serve as a promising candidate target in treating ischemic stroke. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Recent changes in trauma care include an emphasis on pain treatment to decrease the potent inflammatory response that results in hyper-coagulability, organ dysfunction, systemic inflammatory response, lung injury, brain injury, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Patients with acute brain injury (trauma or haemorrhagic stroke) with invasive mechanical ventilation for ≥ 24 h. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We hypothesized that malignant patterns on electroencephalography are associated with evidence of more severe brain injury on MR imaging. (ajnr.org)
  • Imaging studies were visually scored for severity of brain injury. (ajnr.org)
  • We found discordant evidence of brain injury by MR imaging and electroencephalography, refuting our initial hypothesis. (ajnr.org)
  • Malignant electroencephalography patterns were generally more frequent in subjects with less severe brain injury by MR imaging. (ajnr.org)
  • Traumatic brain injury (TBI) directly affects the survival of patients and can cause long-term sequelae. (jtraumainj.org)
  • The findings confirmed that overall TBI patients and patients with isolated brain injury had improved treatment results and emergency care through the operation of a trauma center in a tertiary general hospital. (jtraumainj.org)
  • As such, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a disease that can pose a significant threat to life and has a high possibility of causing life-long functional sequelae after an accident [ 3 ]. (jtraumainj.org)
  • Huang L , Kang J , Chen G , Ye W , Meng X , Du Q , Feng Z , . Low-intensity focused ultrasound attenuates early traumatic brain injury by OX-A/NF-κB/NLRP3 signaling pathway. (aging-us.com)
  • Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a major global public health problem [ 1 ]. (aging-us.com)
  • Brain injury often results in various physical and mental sequelae, such as epilepsy, chronic encephalopathy, and depression [ 2 ], which cause great harm to sufferers and have a tremendous economic impact on families and the social health system. (aging-us.com)
  • In addition to severity of injury, poor family functioning and lower socioeconomic status could play a role ( Brain Inj . (medscape.com)
  • Issues of system preparation of the hospital, demographics, injury patterns and therapies were analyzed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The chi-squared test was used to analyze differences in injury patterns in explosion and gunshot injuries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, literature covering an overview of interdisciplinary injury patterns is rare. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Three distinct histological patterns of liver injury have been described to date: hepatitic, cholangitic and mixed cholangiohepatitic. (bmj.com)
  • 0.05) between the composite lung score and pleural score and the variables of arterial oxygen status. (vin.com)
  • Haider said this generally indicates fairly serious injuries, such as having a broken leg and a punctured lung, or a busted spleen and an injured spine. (dotmed.com)
  • A combination of low dose steroids with cyclophosphamide is effective in interstitial lung disease treatment especially in active disease, and results did not show differences regarding the high dose group but the sample size and the evolutionary severity of high dose patients oblige other studies to verify these data. (reumatologiaclinica.org)
  • Especially, pulmonary administration of PSLipos-L-NAC could significantly reduce the inflammatory response of M1-like macrophages in lung tissue and promote lung injury repair in a bleomycin-induced acute lung injury (ALI) mouse model, providing a potential therapeutic approach for ALI. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In the general intensive care unit (ICU) population, the use of high tidal volumes (Vt) and inspiratory pressures have been shown to overstretch the alveoli and to be the leading cause of ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) [ 5 , 6 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Is MicroRNA-127 a Novel Biomarker for Acute Pancreatitis with Lung Injury? (hindawi.com)
  • The aim of this study was to determine the expression of microRNA-127 (miR-127) in both rat models and patients of acute pancreatitis (AP) with lung injury (LI). (hindawi.com)
  • Lung injury (LI) is commonly involved in 15%~60% of severe AP, and severe LI is likely to trigger acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and respiratory failure (RF). (hindawi.com)
  • Of note, recent study identified that miR-127 expression was aberrant in the inflammation-related pulmonary disorders [ 36 ] and further revealed that enhanced expression of miR-127 could promote the development of inflammatory macrophages and contribute to the exaggerated lung inflammation and injury [ 37 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The probability of calcaneal fracture was 0.32, of ankle injury 0.2, tibial fracture 0.2, femoral fracture 0.17, pelvic fracture 0.34, spinal injury 0.51, upper limb injury 0.26, head injury 0.2 and trunk injury 0.32. (openorthopaedicsjournal.com)
  • The pCO 2 was not significantly different from any of the thoracic injury variables indicating normal alveolar ventilation. (vin.com)
  • Polytrauma can be defined as a combination of multiple, simultaneous injuries to more than one body part or organ system. (medsci.org)
  • COVID-19-associated hospital admission levels are a suitable primary metric for monitoring COVID-19 trends, the percentage of COVID-19 deaths is a timely disease severity indicator, and the percentages of positive SARS-CoV-2 test results from NREVSS and ED visits serve as early indicators for COVID-19 monitoring. (cdc.gov)
  • A reduction in EQ-5D compared to retrospectively assessed pre-injury levels of at least 0.074 was taken as the minimal important difference (MID). (springer.com)
  • We retrospectively reviewed all penetrating injuries at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, and identified and categorised all stab wound injuries as SI or IO. (smj.org.sg)
  • A review of stab wound injuries at a tertiary trauma centre in Singapore: are self-inflicted ones less severe? (smj.org.sg)
  • The study confirms our hypothesis that SI injuries tend to be less severe than IO injuries and are more likely to occur at home rather than at a public area. (smj.org.sg)
  • Additionally, we anecdotally observed that self-inflicted stab wound (SI) injuries appeared to be less severe than those inflicted by others (IO). (smj.org.sg)
  • Characteristics of work- and non-work-related farm injuries. (cdc.gov)
  • Cesare JMorgan ASFelice PEEdge V Characteristics of blunt and personal violent injuries. (jamanetwork.com)
  • While this was not statistically significant, it does suggest that injury severity isn't the whole story when it comes to development of attention problems following TBI," she said. (medscape.com)
  • 3 ] Many bleeding deaths occur soon after injury and there is a 10% reduction in treatment effectiveness for every 15 minutes treatment delay. (researchsquare.com)
  • Blunt carotid and vertebral artery injury (BCVI) occur infrequently. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, it is not known whether resuscitation after a [ 10 - 12 ] HS can cause cerebral injury and concomitant neurological dysfunction, and its potential mechanisms. (medsci.org)
  • Schultz JHSchmidt HGQueitsch CJurgens CBisgwa F Treatment of severe concomitant injuries in severely burned patients. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Advances in combat casualty care, medical transport, and personal protective equipment led to a greater survivability from wounds, and the US Military Health System subsequently faced a growing number of service members and veterans with injury-related sequelae [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The results of this study suggest that the MISS may be a valid measurement of mandibular injury severity as evidenced by the positive correlation between the MISS and postoperative complications , duration of operation, and LOS. (bvsalud.org)
  • To check the effectiveness of helicopters, Haider said his team used sophisticated statistical techniques to compare the results of thousands of patients transported to trauma centers by either helicopter or ground ambulance. (dotmed.com)
  • RESULTS: In our analysis, we found that work- versus nonwork-relatedness had little effect on injury severity, but that work-related injuries did result in longer average hospital stays. (cdc.gov)
  • The prospective imaging reports were reviewed for the diagnosis of diaphragm injury and the results confirmed with the operative record. (highwire.org)
  • Ten patients had internal carotid artery injuries, two patients had common carotid artery injuries, and 11 patients had vertebral artery injuries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Blunt carotid and vertebral artery injury (BCVI) is infrequent, but may have serious repercussions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This article reviews the conceptual and statistical background necessary to understand injury severity scoring, presents the most common scoring systems, and addresses new ideas and trends in trauma scoring. (medscape.com)
  • Injuries are the most common cause of death receive the greatest load of trauma patients among people 1 to 34 years of age, a leading in Tehran and are located in different parts cause of disability and years of life lost, and of the city. (who.int)
  • Multicentre cohort study of 16-70-year-olds admitted to 4 UK hospitals following injury. (springer.com)
  • Pre-hospital tranexamic acid treatment of trauma patients with a BATT score of 2 or more would avoid 210 bleeding deaths by treating 61,598 patients instead of avoiding 55 deaths by treating 9,915 as currently. (researchsquare.com)
  • A score of 2 or more would be an appropriate threshold for pre-hospital tranexamic acid treatment. (researchsquare.com)
  • These nonfatal farm -related injuries were compared by work-relatedness, injury severity score, length of hospital stay, and hospital discharge status. (cdc.gov)
  • Factors increasing likelihood of this were: male gender, incident at public place compared to home, low energy trauma, absence of pre-hospital physician involvement, stable blood pressure, no major extra cranial injuries, normal pupillary light reflex and severe alcohol intoxication. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Pre-hospital emergency medical service (EMS) protocol mandates transportation of patients requiring neurosurgical and intensive care directly to the designated hospital following injury. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The aim of this study is to examine the pattern of injuries sustained and the hospital workload generated by patients who deliberately jump from height. (openorthopaedicsjournal.com)
  • Specialized knowledge about war injuries and their management including hospital preparation and planning regarding infrastructure may be required anytime. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It reportedly handles the highest number of trauma patients in Singapore, admitting over 1,000 serious trauma patients yearly (Injury Severity Score [ISS] 9 and above), hence may be considered the busiest trauma and acute care hospital in Singapore. (smj.org.sg)
  • Naidoo S A profile of the oro-facial injuries in child physical abuse at a children's hospital. (jamanetwork.com)
  • During a 30-month (2006-2008), all patients admitted to the emergency room of Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo with blunt cervical trauma and potential risk of cervical vessel injury, were subjected to cervical angiotomography to diagnose BCVI. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Depression and anxiety scores 1 month post-injury were independently associated with subsequent MID in HRQoL. (springer.com)
  • All consecutive patients presenting with severe head injury defined by GCS ≤ 8 and whose next of kin had given informed consent were recruited into the study. (annalsofafricansurgery.com)
  • Characterization of injury severity is crucial to the scientific study of trauma, yet the actual measurement of injury severity began only 50 years ago. (medscape.com)
  • After obtaining exempt status from our institutional review board, we reviewed the TTSH Trauma Registry, a prospectively maintained database, and identified all patients with penetrating injuries who were admitted to TTSH from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2010. (smj.org.sg)