Amy T Makley,Richard A Falcone Jr
Amy T Makley
Recent research has uncovered the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after traumatic experiences in the pediatric population at an alarming rate. This review discusses new challenges in identifying children at risk for the d...
Massive transfusion and blood product use in the pediatric trauma patient [0.03%]
儿科创伤患者的大量输血和血液制品使用
Jeffrey J Dehmer,William T Adamson
Jeffrey J Dehmer
Hemorrhagic shock in the pediatric trauma patient is an uncommon but fundamental problem for the treating clinician. Current management of hemorrhagic shock involves initial resuscitation with crystalloid fluids followed by infusion of bloo...
Stephen E Morrow,Matthew Pearson
Stephen E Morrow
Brain injuries represent the most common cause of mortality and long-term morbidity from trauma in children. The management of closed head injuries focuses on prevention of secondary injury by optimizing the delivery of oxygen and nutrients...
Nicholas A Hamilton,Martin S Keller
Nicholas A Hamilton
Head injury occurs frequently in childhood and results in approximately 500,000 emergency department visits and over $1 billion in costs annually. Nearly 75% of these children are ultimately diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI)...
Rita V Burke,Ellen Iverson,Catherine J Goodhue et al.
Rita V Burke et al.
Recent disasters involving pediatric victims have highlighted the need for pediatric hospital disaster preparedness. Although children represent 25% of the U.S. population, there are significant gaps in pediatric disaster preparedness acros...
Nathaniel S Kreykes,Robert W Letton Jr
Nathaniel S Kreykes
Cervical spine injury in pediatric trauma occurs rarely; however, there is significant potential for considerable morbidity when it does occur. Screening for cervical spine injuries has been shown to be most sensitive in adult trauma center...
Eric R Scaife,Michael D Rollins
Eric R Scaife
Pediatric trauma is usually a nonoperative experience for the pediatric general surgeon. The pediatric trauma surgeon resuscitates the child and then evaluates and triages the identified injuries. A common diagnostic tool is the computed to...
Robin C Cook,Thane A Blinman
Robin C Cook
Of all the interventions available to aid recovery of the injured child, few have the power of proper nutritional support. Healing after trauma depends not only on restoration of oxygen delivery, but on "substrate delivery," or provision of...
Michael L Nance
Michael L Nance
Annelies de Klein,Dick Tibboel
Annelies de Klein
For many years karyotyping has been a successful tool to identify chromosome aberrations in congenital malformations. It has proven to be a highly reliable technique for identifying numerical chromosome changes and structural chromosomal re...