Large-scale traumatic events may burden any affected public health system with consequential charges. One major post-disaster, expense factor emerges form early psychological interventions and subsequent, post...
Authors: Francesco de Gara, William T Gallo, Jonathan I Bisson, Jerome Endrass and Stefan Vetter
Citation:Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes
2008
2:3
Management of orthopaedic injuries in polytrauma cases continues to challenge the orthopaedic traumatologist. Mass disasters compound this challenge further due to delayed referral. Recently there has been inc...
Authors: Shabir Ahmed Dhar, Masood Iqbal Bhat, Ajaz Mustafa, Mohammed Ramzan Mir, Mohammed Farooq Butt, Manzoor Ahmed Halwai, Amin Tabish, Murtaza Asif Ali and Arshiya Hamid
Citation:Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes
2008
2:2
The Iraq war has vividly brought the problem of traumatic brain injury to the foreground. The costs of death and morbidity in lost wages, lost taxes, and rehabilitative costs, let alone the emotional costs, ar...
Authors: Thomas J Papadimos
Citation:Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes
2008
2:1
Unstable proximal femoral fractures and pathological lesions involving the trochanteric region in the elderly comprise an increasing workload for the trauma surgeon as the ageing population increases. This stu...
Authors: Ulfin Rethnam, James Cordell-Smith, Thirumoolanathan M Kumar and Amit Sinha
Citation:Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes
2007
1:7
Specialisation in spinal services has lead to a low threshold for referral of cervical spine injuries from district general hospitals. We aim to assess the capability of a district general hospital in providin...
Authors: Ulfin Rethnam, James Cordell-Smith and Amit Sinha
Citation:Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes
2007
1:6
Sledding is a popular traditional pastime in northern countries. However it is only rarely thought as a potentially dangerous activity even though serious injuries and deaths do occur. The purpose of this stud...
Authors: Stefano Corra and Franco De Giorgi
Citation:Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes
2007
1:5
The literature identifying mechanism of injury came to prominence in the mid to late 1980s. The current Victorian prehospital triage guidelines do not necessarily reflect the conditions within the Victorian po...
Authors: Malcolm J Boyle
Citation:Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes
2007
1:4
Floating Knee injuries are complex injuries. The type of fractures, soft tissue and associated injuries make this a challenging problem to manage. We present the outcome of these injuries after surgical manage...
Authors: Ulfin Rethnam, Rajam S Yesupalan and Rajagopalan Nair
Citation:Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes
2007
1:2
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) describe the topography and chronology of events in a defined vector space. GIS may also be used for an integrated analysis of environmental and road-related risk factors f...
Authors: Vaibhav Bagaria and Saurabh Bagaria
Citation:Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes
2007
1:3