... (n=1,051). Researchers noted patients' age, sex, insurance status, injury and ... other causes of ethnic disparities in functional outcomes of trauma patients should be sought. These may include quality ...
... had a higher percentage of incidental findings," she said.
"A lot of patients come into the ER as trauma patients, but are leaving with diagnoses that are not related to trauma. As a physician, ...
... as 64-slice MDCT, CT scanning of trauma patients replaced traditional x-ray radiography ... to investigate a tool for measuring pneumothorax size in trauma patients," said Dr. Cai.
The study included 68 ...
... two groups.
In the group treated by novice surgeons, trauma patients were 44 percent less likely to ... later period vs. in the earlier period). Patients managed by novice surgeons in the later period ...
... consistent with previous reports in cardiac surgery patients. Philip Spinella and Christopher Carroll, both ... USA and their team studied 202 severe trauma patients treated at Hartford Hospital following ...
Trauma patients who were intoxicated before their injuries were more likely to survive than trauma patients who suffered similar injuries but were sober at the time, according to a study published in ...
... no evidence of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in most trauma patients with pulmonary embolism. "A consistent finding ... 2004 through 2006. While 46 patients developed pulmonary embolism and 18 had deep ...
... Clinic researchers found that the frequency with which critically-ill patients developed ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) ... VAP in intensive care units (ICU) for trauma patients averaged 3.4 per ...
... practice guidelines strongly recommend that elderly trauma patients be treated as aggressively as non-elderly ... 2006. The registry identified 26,565 trauma patients, defined as those who met criteria set ...
Elderly trauma patients appear to be less likely than younger patients to be transported to a trauma center, possibly because of unconscious age bias among emergency medical services personnel, ...
... Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) project shows there is no benefit — and perhaps harm — to providing advanced life support to patients with trauma injuries prior to transport to hospital.
... 64 years treated at approximately 700 trauma centers nationwide between 2001 and 2005. Of these, 72 ... write. "The absence of health insurance increased a trauma patient's adjusted odds of death by almost ...
... to 190 a month after the closure. It also found the time to transport trauma patients to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center ... death among all ages. Level 1 trauma centers provide the highest level of surgical ...
... than 300,000 Americans each year. Patients in large, urban, and teaching hospitals are more likely ... care centers modeled after those that treat serious trauma patients, says lead author Brendan Carr, ...
... issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (JAAOS) explains that trauma patients who have several orthopaedic injuries and are considered to be in unstable condition should ...
