Wounds and Injuries - Therapy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Historical perspective: neurological advances from studies of war injuries and illnesses.

29 Sep 2009 Early in the 20th century during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I (WWI), some of the most important, lasting contributions to clinical neurology were descriptive clinical studies, especially those concerning war-related peripheral nerve ... Read more...

Complication rates among trauma centers.

17 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The goal of this study was to examine the association between patient complications and admission to Level I trauma centers (TC) compared with nontrauma centers (NTC). STUDY DESIGN: This was a retrospective cohort study of data derived ... Read more...

The U.S. military wartime pediatric trauma mission: how surgeons and pediatricians are adapting the system to address the need.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE: Over 3,500 infants and children, many critically ill and injured, have been admitted to military combat support hospitals (CSH) in Afghanistan and Iraq, which are not doctrinally staffed or equipped to provide their care. This report ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Wounds and Injuries - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Transfusion for trauma in Australia. 30 Oct 2009
• Emergency traumatologists in trauma care. 30 Oct 2009
• Pain management and sedation for children in the emergency department. 28 Oct 2009
• Historical perspective: neurological advances from studies of war injuries and illnesses. 29 Sep 2009
• Transfusion for trauma: the French army policy. 29 Sep 2009
• Complication rates among trauma centers. 17 Sep 2009
• The U.S. military wartime pediatric trauma mission: how surgeons and pediatricians are adapting the system to address the need. 30 Aug 2009
• Front line trauma care. 30 Aug 2009
• Exciting times for the Defence Medical Services. 30 Aug 2009
• Wounds of the pastern and foot region managed with phalangeal casts: 50 cases in 49 horses (1995-2006). 30 Aug 2009
• A simplified set of trauma triage criteria to safely reduce overtriage: a prospective study. 30 Aug 2009
• Lyophilized plasma for resuscitation in a swine model of severe injury. 30 Aug 2009
• Wasted hospital days impair the value of length-of-stay variables in the quality assessment of trauma care. 30 Aug 2009
• The impact of a new trauma center on an existing nearby trauma center. 30 Aug 2009
• Electronic medical records and mortality in trauma patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Proximal humerus intraosseous infusion: a preferred emergency venous access. 30 Aug 2009
• Long-term follow-up of trauma patients with permanent prophylactic vena cava filters. 30 Aug 2009
• Heart rate variability as a triage tool in patients with trauma during prehospital helicopter transport. 30 Aug 2009
• Emergency traumatologists as partners in trauma care. 30 Aug 2009
• Splints and casts: indications and methods. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Wounds and Injuries'

Definition: Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.

Descriptor UI: D014947

Alternative terms: Wounds and Injuries; Wounds, Injury; Trauma; Traumas; Wounds and Injury; Injury and Wounds; Injuries and Wounds; Injuries, Wounds; Wounds; Wound; Injuries; Injury;

Related Mesh Headings: First Aid; Transportation of Patients;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.866;

Online Note: pre-explosion = WOUNDS A#D INJURIES (PX)

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified; prefer /inj with organs (Manual 19.7+, 19.8.38) or specific organ /inj precoords; policy: Manual 23.23+; types of wounds are also available, as WOUNDS, PENETRATING, etc.; MULTIPLE TRAUMA is available; wound suction: coord wd & inj concept with DRAINAGE; DF: WOUNDS