Prehospital trauma care: a clinical review. (1/4)

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Traumatic atlanto-occipital dislocation: a case report. (2/4)

We report a 30-year-old man with atlanto-occipital dislocation after a traffic accident. Diagnosis was based on radiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. Owing to the critical conditions that did not fulfil advanced trauma and life support protocols, surgical treatment was deferred, and the patient died 10 hours later.  (+info)

The level of knowledge of the advanced trauma life support protocol among nonspecialist doctors involved in trauma care in Enugu metropolis. (3/4)

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Effect of Advanced Trauma Life Support program on medical interns' performance in simulated trauma patient management. (4/4)

OBJECTIVE: Since appropriate and time-table methods in trauma care have an important impact on patients'outcome, we evaluated the effect of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) program on medical interns' performance in simulated trauma patient management. METHODS: A descriptive and analytical study before and after the training was conducted on 24 randomly selected undergraduate medical interns from Imam Reza Hospital in Mashhad, Iran. On the first day, we assessed interns' clinical knowledge and their practical skill performance in confronting simulated trauma patients. After 2 days of ATLS training, we performed the same study and evaluated their score again on the fourth day. The two findings, pre- and post- ATLS periods, were compared through SPSS version 15.0 software. P values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant. RESULTS: Our findings showed that interns'ability in all the three tasks improved after the training course. On the fourth day after training, there was a statistically significant increase in interns' clinical knowledge of ATLS procedures, the sequence of procedures and skill performance in trauma situations (P less than 0.001, P equal to 0.016 and P equal to 0.01 respectively). CONCLUSION: ATLS course has an important role in increasing clinical knowledge and practical skill performance of trauma care in medical interns.  (+info)