Articles Tagged With: trauma
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Emergency Airway Management: A Targeted Review of Difficult Trauma Situations
Airway management is one of the cornerstones of emergency medicine practice and resuscitation. An emergency clinician must have a strategy for these situations based on clinical skills, available devices, urgency of the situation, and potential consultants.
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Electrical and Lightning Injuries
Although electrical injuries are rare, patients who present with these injuries to emergency departments pose particular challenges to emergency physicians and trauma surgeons.
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Ultrasound for Trauma
Point-of-care ultrasound is a critical clinical tool that facilitates the early diagnosis of many life-threatening injuries. As with any test, clinicians need to fully appreciate indications and limitations of the diagnostic tool and integrate where advantageous to their practice.
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Man-made Disaster: In-hospital Management
Man-made disaster directly impacts the emergency department and hospital when a mass casualty situation ensues, and is the focus of this review article. Using contemporary examples and the current literature, what follows is a primer on the causes, injury patterns, resource utilization, triage, and preparation for man-made mass casualty events.
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Pediatric Head Injury
The impact of traumatic brain injury as a leading cause of death and morbidity in the pediatric population cannot be ignored, and significantly impacts any provider who cares for children.
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Damage Control Resuscitation
MONOGRAPH: Exsanguinating hemorrhage is one of (if not the) most common preventable cause of death after trauma.
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Costly Diagnosis Delays can be Avoided with Good Practices
Patient safety experts are finding that system failures are more responsible for diagnosis errors than simply mistakes by individuals.
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Updates in Pediatric Trauma, Part I
MONOGRAPH: New advances in diagnostic evaluation and treatment for the No. 1 cause of death and disability in children and adolescents.
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Abstract & Commentary: Hospital Organizational Characteristics Associated with Use of Daily Sedation Interruption in Mechanically Ventilated Patients
Miller and colleagues conducted a survey of daily interruption of sedation (DIS) in U.S. hospitals and sought to determine whether organizational features were associated with DIS use. The survey was mailed to a stratified random sample of non-federal U.S. acute-care hospitals with more than 50 beds. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement