Articles: trauma.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg S · Jun 2010
Trauma Associated with Cardiac Conduction Abnormalities: Population-Based Perspective, Mechanism and Review of Literature.
Various cardiac conduction abnormalities have been described as being a result of trauma in many case reports. The aim of this research was to look at the association between trauma (thoracic and cardiac) and conduction abnormalities in a large hospitalized population. ⋯ The results of this study demonstrate the impact of trauma on cardiac conduction abnormalities. This study represents an attempt to consider a mechanism of a complex traumatic cardiac event from a population-based perspective, and may improve the prognosis for patients diagnosed with cardiac or thoracic injuries.
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Psychiatry investigation · Jun 2010
Reliability and validity of the korean version of the connor-davidson resilience scale.
The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) measures various aspects of psychological resilience in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychiatric ailments. This study sought to assess the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (K-CD-RISC). ⋯ The K-CD-RISC showed good reliability and validity for measurement of resilience among Korean subjects.
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Review Comparative Study
The evolution of the treatment of traumatic cerebrovascular injury during wartime.
The approach to traumatic craniocervical vascular injury has evolved significantly in recent years. Conflicts prior to Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom were characterized by minimal intervention in the setting of severe penetrating head injury, in large part due to limited far-forward resource availability. Consequently, sequelae of penetrating head injury like traumatic aneurysm formation remained poorly characterized with a paucity of pathophysiological descriptions. ⋯ As a result of the rapid field resuscitation and early cranial decompression, patients are surviving longer, which has led to diagnosis and treatment of entities that had previously gone undiagnosed. Therefore, in this paper the authors' purpose is to review their experience with severe traumatic brain injury complicated by injury to the craniocervical vasculature. Historical approaches will be reviewed, and the importance of modern endovascular techniques will be emphasized.
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Experimental neurology · May 2010
ReviewThe potentiation of peripheral nerve sheaths in regeneration and repair.
Traumatic injury to the nervous system often results in life changing loss of neurological function. Spontaneous neural regeneration occurs rarely and the outcome of therapeutic intervention is most often unacceptable. An intensive effort is underway to improve methods and technologies for nervous system repair. ⋯ Experimental alteration of nerve sheath composition can also potentiate nerve and improve key features of nerve regeneration. For instance, enzymatic degradation of inhibitory chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan mimics endogenous processes that potentiate degenerated nerve and improves the outcome of direct nerve repair and grafting in animal models. This review provides a perspective of the essential role that peripheral nerve sheaths play in regulating axonal regeneration and focuses on discoveries leading to the inception and development of novel therapies for nerve repair.
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Traumatic craniocervical dissociation (CCD), which includes atlanto-occipital dissociation and vertical distraction between C1-C2, is often an immediately fatal injury that has increasingly been associated with survival to the hospital. Our aim was to identify survivors of CCD based on clinical presentation. ⋯ Trauma patients diagnosed with CCD in the ED, with cervical cord injury, requiring CPR, and with GCS of 3 will not survive their injury. Wider BDI is associated with mortality.