Bulletin of emergency & trauma
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The patient with head trauma is a challenge for the emergency physician and for the neurosurgeon. Currently traumatic brain injury constitutes a public health problem. ⋯ The fluid in patients with brain trauma and especially in patients with brain injur y is a critical issue. In this context we present a review of the literature about the history, physiology of current fluid preparations, and a discussion regarding the use of fluid therapy in traumatic brain injury and decompressive craniectomy.
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To evaluate the accuracy of surgeons' intraoperative diagnosis in open appendectomy and compare it with the histopathology examination results afterwards. ⋯ The method used by our surgeon is not completely indicative in mild to severe inflamed appendix but it is almost always compatible with the pathology results in suppurated, gangrened, and perforated appendix. Therefore surgeons' gross observation of the inflamed appendix may not always be in concordance with the histopathology examination of the resected appendix.