Spontaneous Recovery of Paraplegia in a Polytrauma Patient following Spinal Cord Ischemia due to Type B Traumatic Aortic Dissection by Pedro Ramos Jurado, Fernando Hernández Aragón, Víctor Aaron Miranda González, Jesús Antonio Loya Silva, Edgar Azael Pérez Gutiérrez, Nadia Karina Portillo Ortiz, Adriana Cristina Quintana Vázquez, Luisa Fernanda Trujillo Venzor, Eduardo Enrique Gámez Aponte, Arturo Aguirre Madrid, Edmundo Berumen Nafarrate

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Impact of Weather and Holidays on Orthopedic Emergency Room Crowding, Fractures, and Polytraumas in a Third-Level Referral Trauma Center in Europe by Lorenzo Andreani, Edoardo Ipponi, Francesco Pecchia, Giorgio Balestrieri, Edoardo Tosi, Stefano Marchetti, Paolo Domenico Parchi

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Early versus late surgical stabilisation of unstable thoracolumbar spine fractures in adult polytrauma patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Sebastian Ndlovu, Stanley Masunda, Emmanuel Oladeji, Ahmed Lashin, Ahmed Kaddah, Khalid A. Shah

“…Early fixation was also associated with reduced ICULOS and respiratory complications.Early surgical stabilisation of unstable thoracolumbar spine fractures within 72h of injury is safe and associated with favorable short-term outcomes in adult polytrauma patients with unstable thoracolumbar spine fractures. …”
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Basic Medical Emergency Treatment for Maxillofacial Injuries by Ilirian Lenjani, Fatime Lenjani, Mentor Mustafa, Agron Dogjani, Basri Lenjani

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Admission Blood Glucose Level with a Cutoff Value of 15 mmol/L Is a Reliable Predictor of Mortality in Polytraumatized Patients—a Prospective, Observational, Longitudina... by Armanious TR, Khalifa AA, Abubeih H, Badran M, Adam FF, Farouk O

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Effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic on Outcomes among Patients with Polytrauma at a Single Regional Trauma Center in South Korea by Sun Hyun Kim, Dongyeon Ryu, Hohyun Kim, Kangho Lee, Chang Ho Jeon, Hyuk Jin Choi, Jae Hoon Jang, Jae Hun Kim, Seok Ran Yeom

“…Methods We retrospectively reviewed cases of polytrauma at a single regional trauma center in South Korea between January 20 and September 30, 2020 (the COVID-19 period) and compared them to cases reported during the same time frame (January 20 to September 30) between 2016 and 2019 (the pre-COVID-19 period). …”
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Severe soft tissue injuries in multiple trauma patients—a challenge we can meet? A matched-pair analysis from the TraumaRegister DGU® by Nora Kirsten, Georg Maximilian Franke, Rolf Lefering, Tim Klüter, Matthias Weuster, Michael Müller, Sebastian Lippross, Andreas Seekamp, TraumaRegister DGU®, Stefanie Fitschen-Oestern

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Percutaneous screw fixation and external stabilization as definitive surgical intervention for a pelvic ring injury combined with an acetabular fracture in the acute phase of polytrauma in Korea: a case report by Hohyoung Lee, Myung-Rae Cho, Suk-Kyoon Song, Euisun Yoon, Sungho Lee

“…Unstable pelvic ring injuries are potentially life-threatening and associated with high mortality and complication rates in polytrauma patients. The most common cause of death in patients with pelvic ring injuries is massive bleeding. …”
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Cytological Effects of Serum Isolated from Polytraumatized Patients on Human Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Yazhou Long, Katrin Bundkirchen, Pascal Gräff, Christian Krettek, Sandra Noack, Claudia Neunaber

“…For this, sera from 84 patients with polytrauma (collected between 2010 and 2020 in our department) were used. …”
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Effects of Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in Neurotrauma: Three Cases by Dong Hun Kim, Ye Rim Chang, Jung-Ho Yun

“…In this report on REBOA performed in a clinical setting for polytrauma patients with spinal cord injury or TBI, the physiological effects of REBOA in neurotrauma are reviewed.…”
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Clinical Features, Management, and Outcomes of Chest Trauma at a Tertiary-Care Centre in India: A Retrospective Observational Study by Bhupinder Singh Walia, Pankaj Dugg, Sanjeev Sharma

“…A retrospective study was carried out for chest trauma patients including polytrauma (n = 184) from hospital records for five years (2016–2020). …”
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An Unusual Localization of Lunate in a Transcaphoid Volar Lunate Dislocation: Current Concepts by Grigorios Kastanis, George Velivasakis, Anna Pantouvaki, Manolis Spyrantis

“…We present a case of a 42-year-old polytrauma male, transmitted to our department 48 hours after a car accident with a trans-scaphoid volar lunate dislocation. …”
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Usefulness of Shock Index to Predict Outcomes of Trauma Patient: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Myoung Jun Kim, Jung Yun Park, Mi Kyoung Kim, Jae Gil Lee

“…Purpose We investigated how prehospital, emergency room (ER), and delta shock indices (SI) correlate with outcomes including mortality in patients with polytrauma. Methods We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 1,275 patients who visited the emergency department from January 2015 to April 2018. …”
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The Validity of Quantifying Pulmonary Contusion Extent by Lung Ultrasound Score for Predicting ARDS in Blunt Thoracic Trauma by Mohamed Soliman Sayed, Kareem Abdelhamid Elmeslmany, Ahmed Samir Elsawy, Nashwa Abed Mohamed

“…Methods. In one year, 50 polytrauma patients with blunt chest trauma were admitted to the ICU at Damanhur Institute. …”
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Validity of the scoring system for traumatic liver injury: a generalized estimating equation analysis by Kangho Lee, Dongyeon Ryu, Hohyun Kim, Chang Ho Jeon, Jae Hun Kim, Chan Yong Park, Seok Ran Yeom

“…This study aimed to validate the SSTLI as a prognostic factor in patients with polytrauma and liver injury through a generalized estimating equation analysis. …”
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Successful nonoperative management of a simultaneous high-grade splenic injury and devascularized kidney in Australia: a case report by Peter Thanh Tam Nguyen, Jeremy M. Hsu

“…Severe blunt injuries to isolated solid abdominal viscera have been previously managed nonoperatively; however, management algorithms for simultaneous visceral injuries are less well defined. We report a polytrauma case of a 33-year-old man involved in a motorbike collision who presented with left-sided chest and abdominal pain. …”
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“Subarachnoid block in active burn injury”: A case report of anesthetic challenges and considerations by Rutuja Gohad, Sudha S. Jain, Shubham Rahane, Dushyant Bawiskar

“…Anesthetists pose different challenges in burn cases associated with polytrauma. Here, we present a case of a 35-year-old male electrician with an electric burn and a fall from height who sustained major chest trauma (hemothorax, pneumothorax, emphysema, and multiple rib fracture, and bilateral femur fracture). …”
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Changing Trends in Maxillofacial Trauma: A Single-Center Retrospective Study in India by Kapil S. Agrawal, Vivek Gupta, Mudunuri Ravi Teja, Raghav Shrotriya, Vinita A. Puri

“… Background Maxillofacial trauma is quite commonly encountered either in isolation or in association with polytrauma. The present observational study aims to analyze the changing trends of maxillofacial injuries and mull over some probable reasons for the same.…”
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Isolated Large Glenoid Fracture in Acute Glenohumeral Dislocation in the Elderly: A Novel Indication for Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty by Tyler Smith, Joseph D’Alonzo, Alfonso Arevalo, Jack Kazanjian

“…Due to several concomitant factors such as polytrauma, activity level, rotator cuff pathology, optimization of comorbidities, risk of complications, and potential for revision surgery, the patients were treated with reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA). …”
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The management of Pancreatic fistula Complicated by Gastric fistulation following Emergency Splenectomy by Tan Jih Huei, Henry Tan Chor Lip, Chow Sing Thou, Yuzaidi Mohamad, Rizal Imran Alwi

“…Here, we present a case of pancreatogastric fistula in a 60-year-old man who experienced polytrauma due to a blunt mechanism. He underwent emergency splenectomy for splenic injury and developed a pancreatic fistula as a complication. …”
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