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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Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in orthopedic trauma patients and a call to implement the Injured Trauma Survivor Screen as a prospective screening protocol in the Unit... by Victoria J. Nedder, Mary A. Breslin, Vanessa P. Ho, Heather A. Vallier

“…This study compared PTSD prevalence using the PTSD checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) with the prevalence of PTSD risk using the Injured Trauma Survivor Screen (ITSS). Methods Adult trauma patients at a level I trauma center were screened with the PCL-5 (sample 1) at follow-up visits or using the ITSS as inpatients (sample 2). …”
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Delayed Surgical Management of Traumatic Pseudoaneurysm of the Ascending Aorta in Multiple Trauma by Dae Sung Ma, Sung Jin Kim, Seok Joo, Sung Youl Hyun, Yang Bin Jeon

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Impact of obesity on the severity of trauma in patients injured in pedestrian traffic accidents by Pillsung Oh, Jin-Seong Cho, Jae Ho Jang, Jae Yeon Choi, Woo Sung Choi, Byungchul Yu

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Partial Ureteropelvic Junction Disruption after Blunt Trauma: Case Report by Jalal Eddine El Ammari, Youness Ahallal, Mohammed Jamal El Fassi, M. Hassan Farih

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Unusual Mechanism of Facial Nerve Palsy Caused by Penetrating Neck Trauma by Marisa Klančnik, Petar Ivanišević, Marina Krnić Martinić, Petra Smoje, Marta Zrinka Vucemilovic

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Corrigendum to “Fatal Vertebral Artery Injury in Penetrating Cervical Spine Trauma” by Chadi Tannoury, Anthony Degiacomo

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Alcohol Intoxication and Glasgow Coma Scale Scores in Patients with Head Trauma by Jisoo Park, Taejin Park, Jung-In Ko, Woonhyung Yeo

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Efficacy of the Protocol for Trauma Team Activation in Taipei: A Retrospective Study by Wan-Lin Chen, Ju-Chi Ou, Shih-Yu Ko, Wen-Ching Li, Hon-Ping Ma

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Isolated Avulsion of the Common Hepatic Duct from Blunt Abdominal Trauma by Victor W. Wong, Arvin Gee, Paul Hansen, Andrew Michaels

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Mechanisms and Clinical Management of Ventricular Arrhythmias following Blunt Chest Trauma by Daniel H. Wolbrom, Aleef Rahman, Cory M. Tschabrunn

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Clinical Effects of Intra-Abdominal Pressure in Critically Ill Trauma Patients by Dong Yeon Ryu, Hohyun Kim, June Pill Seok, Chan Kyu Lee, Kwang-Hee Yeo, Seon-Uoo Choi, Jae-Hun Kim, Hyun Min Cho

“…This study investigated the effects and outcomes of elevated IAP in a trauma intensive care unit (ICU) population. Methods Eleven consecutive critically ill patients admitted to the trauma ICU at Pusan National University Hospital Regional Trauma Center were included in this study. …”
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Navigating challenges, solutions and requirements in the provision of trauma care in conflict settings by humanitarian actors: a scoping literature review by Nikolaos Markou-Pappas, Luca Ragazzoni, Claudia Truppa, Flavio Salio, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Hamdi Lamine

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Acoustic Trauma Changes the Parvalbumin-Positive Neurons in Rat Auditory Cortex by Congli Liu, Tao Xu, Xiaopeng Liu, Yina Huang, Haitao Wang, Bin Luo, Jingwu Sun

“…However, the change of PV neurons following acoustic trauma remains to be elucidated. The present study investigated how auditory cortical PV neurons change following unilateral 1 hour noise exposure (left ear, one octave band noise centered at 16 kHz, 116 dB SPL). …”
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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, Longitudinal Study From a North African Level One Trauma Center by Armanious TR, Khalifa AA, Abubeih H, Badran M, Adam FF, Farouk O

“…Reports from developing countries are scarce.Objective: To evaluate the reliability of on-admission blood glucose levels in predicting mortality in polytraumatized patients presented to a North African (developing country) trauma center. The secondary objectives were to investigate other possible mortality predictors and if a cutoff value for each could be obtained.Methods: In this prospective longitudinal study, over one year, we included adult (≥ 18 years) patients who were polytraumatized (ISS ≥ 17) and presented to our trauma center within six hours of the trauma incident. …”
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Management of Open Abdomen: Single Center Experience by Hakan Yanar, Emre Sivrikoz

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Diagnosis and Treatment of Peritalar Injuries in the Acute Trauma Setting: A Review of the Literature by Abdul R. Arain, Curtis T. Adams, Stefanos F. Haddad, Muhammad Moral, Joseph Young, Khusboo Desai, Andrew J. Rosenbaum

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Epidural Analgesia for Severe Chest Trauma: An Analysis of Current Practice on the Efficacy and Safety by Jesse Peek, Reinier B. Beks, B. Feike Kingma, Marije Marsman, Jelle P. Ruurda, Roderick M. Houwert, Loek P. H. Leenen, Falco Hietbrink, Mirjam B. de Jong

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Neutrophils in Tissue Trauma of the Skin, Bone, and Lung: Two Sides of the Same Coin by A. Kovtun, D. A. C. Messerer, K. Scharffetter-Kochanek, M. Huber-Lang, A. Ignatius

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The sarcoma ring trial: a case-based analysis of inter-center agreement across 21 German-speaking sarcoma centers by Siyer Roohani, Jolina Handtke, Kamal Hummedah, Markus Albertsmeier, Dimosthenis Andreou, Leonidas Apostolidis, Marinela Augustin, Sebastian Bauer, Moritz Billner, Florian Bösch, Christoph K. W. Deinzer, Niklas Deventer, Anna Duprée, Franziska Eckert, Lars Engel, Katja Fechner, Hagen Fritzsche, Verena Gaidzik, Saeed Ghani, Robert Grützmann, Wiebke K. Guder, Rainer Hamacher, Judith S. Hecker, Anne Hendricks, Axel Hillmann, Philipp Houben, Georg Hübner, Philipp Ivanyi, Christina Jentsch, Maren Jordan, Peter Kappl, Moritz Kaths, Torsten Kessler, Johanna Kirchberg, Carolin Knebel, Robert Krempien, Burkhard Lehner, Ulrich Lenze, Lars H. Lindner, Alisa Martina Lörsch, Nadia Maguire, Sophie Müller, Pompiliu Piso, Vlatko Potkrajcic, Peter Reichardt, Stephan Richter, Simone Schewe, Lars M. Schiffmann, Felicitas Scholten, Jana Käthe Striefler, Matthias Schwarzbach, Katharina Seidensaal, Sabine Semrau, Joanna Szkandera, Christoph J. Szuszies, Beate Timmermann, Armin Tuscherer, Armin Wiegering, Moritz T. Winkelmann, David Kaul, Jens Jakob

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