Jeremy M Hsu,Tam N Pham
Jeremy M Hsu
The damage control concept is an essential component in the management of severely injured patients. The principles in sequence are as follows: (1) abbreviated surgical procedures limited to haemorrhage and contamination control; (2) correc...
Parichat Curry,Ramesh Ramaiah,Monica S Vavilala
Parichat Curry
Injuries are a major and growing public health problem, a leading cause of death and disabilities among people aged 1-44 years around the world. Each year, 5.8 million people die from injuries, accounting for 10% of the world's deaths. Road...
Trends in trauma transfusion [0.03%]
创伤输血趋势分析
Sanjay M Bhananker,Ramesh Ramaiah
Sanjay M Bhananker
Trauma is the leading cause of death in young adults and acute blood loss contributes to a large portion of mortality in the early post-trauma period. The recognition of lethal triad of coagulopathy, hypothermia and acidosis has led to the ...
Kelvin Williamson,Ramaiah Ramesh,Andreas Grabinsky
Kelvin Williamson
Prehospital trauma care developed over the last decades parallel in many countries. Most of the prehospital emergency medical systems relied on input or experiences from military medicine and were often modeled after the existing military p...
Neil Dooney,Armagan Dagal
Neil Dooney
Patients with actual or potential spinal cord injury (SCI) are frequently seen at adult trauma centers, and a large number of these patients require operative intervention. All polytrauma patients should be assumed to have an SCI until prov...
Parichat Curry,Darwin Viernes,Deepak Sharma
Parichat Curry
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health problem and the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Despite the modern diagnosis and treatment, the prognosis for patients with TBI remains poor. While severity of primary i...
Ramesh Ramaiah,Andreas Grabinsky,Kelvin Williamson et al.
Ramesh Ramaiah et al.
Injury is the fourth leading cause of death in the US, and the leading cause of death in younger age. Trauma is primarily a disease of the young and accounts for more years of productive life lost than any other illness. Consequently, almos...
Risk factors for aminoglycoside-associated nephrotoxicity in surgical intensive care unit patients [0.03%]
外科重症监护室患者氨基糖苷类相关肾毒性的危险因素
Anthony T Gerlach,Stanislaw P Stawicki,Charles H Cook et al.
Anthony T Gerlach et al.
Background: Aminoglycosides are commonly used antibiotics in the intensive care unit (ICU), but are associated with nephrotoxicity. This study evaluated the development of aminoglycoside-associated nephrotoxicity (AAN) in...
Resource utilization in the management of traumatic brain injury patients in a critical care unit: An audit from a rural set-up of a developing country [0.03%]
发展中经济体农村地区重症监护病房创伤性脑损伤患者的资源利用情况：一项审计研究
Amit Agrawal,Nitish Baisakhiya,Anand Kakani et al.
Amit Agrawal et al.
Background: Neurosurgical patients including patients with severe head injury are at risk of developing respiratory complications. These can adversely affect the outcome and can result in poor survival. Many studies confi...
The glucogram: A new quantitative tool for glycemic analysis in the surgical intensive care unit [0.03%]
糖代谢定量分析新工具——“血糖谱”在术后加强监护病房的应用初探
S P A Stawicki,D Schuster,J F Liu et al.
S P A Stawicki et al.
Background: Glycemic control is an important aspect of patient care in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU). This is a pilot study of a novel glycemic analysis tool - the glucogram. We hypothesize that the glucogram ma...