Ulusal travma dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES
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Eight Trauma and resuscitation Courses (TRC): two instructor and 6 student courses have been organized in Turkey between December 1998 and November 2000. Questionnaire results of 121 students and 63 instructors were reviewed. We strongly believe that these results will be supportive for the courses in the future. ⋯ The course book was determined as insufficient in terms of drawings and pictures by 15%. The main target population of the course was selected as emergency service doctors and practitioners. As a result we determined that the main criticisms were insufficient practical and video sessions and the lack of drawings in the course book our main goal is to accomplish the required changes, and make new courses more yielding and profitable, thus introduce standardization in terms of trauma care nationwide.
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To evaluate our experience in chest trauma we review the records of the patients admitted for chest trauma to our service between December 1994 and April 2000. There were 126 patients (113 males, 89.7%), with an age range of 7 to 96 years (mean 35.3). The most frequent cause of chest injury were traffic accidents 48 cases (38%) and 73 cases (57.9%) were victims of blunt trauma. ⋯ Mortality was 6.9% (n:8), of which 4 belonged to politrauma group. Mortality is directly related with politrauma. In the patients of the chest trauma, aggressive diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in association with intensive care follow-up remains one of the most important points to decrease mortality and morbidity rate.
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21 patients with gunshot wounds were retrospectively evaluated. They were 19 male and 2 female, age range was 9-24. ⋯ All the patients with glasgow coma scale 3-5 at the admittance died. 15 patients underwent surgical treatment. 3 patients had cerebrospinal fluid fistula postoperatively and underwent reoperation. Extensivity of the lacerated brain, localization of the lesion and the glasgow coma scale at the admittance affect the outcome in gunshot wounds.
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Traffic accidents, which influence to every age group people, are an important public health. This study to determine which condition it has happened more, which days, months and years it has happened, what things have caused to happen traffic accidents. The study was made in Erciyes University Medical School Emergency Department. 31,550 patients applied to emergency department in a period of twelve months in 1998. 7098 (22%) cases of these were traffic accidents. ⋯ As a result, some risk factors increase incidence of traffic accidents. Considering these risk factors in taking measures is of great importance in prevention of traffic accidents. Morbidity and mortality are affected by place where accidents occur, time of accident, properties of motor vehicles, and quality of medical care performed following the incident.
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Since January 1998, non-operative management of blunt splenic trauma has become the preferred method for the selected paediatric and adult patients in our clinic. Of the 26 patients who were admitted to our clinic because of blunt splenic trauma between January 1998 and May 2000, 20 were elected for non-operative management according to our protocol which was primarily based on hemodynamic status regardless of the age and grading of the injury. Diagnostic computed tomography (CT) was obtained in the patients with non-operative management. ⋯ The mean duration of hospitalisation in the patients with operative and non-operative management groups were 7.6 and 8.6 days, respectively (p = 0.572). The mean unit of blood transfusion in the patients with operative and non-operative management groups were 1.1 and 0.6, respectively (p = 0.453). Our data revealed that hemodynamic stability is the most important factor which could effect the selection of patients for non-operative management outcome regardless of the patient age and computed tomography scan grading of the injury.