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Psychosocial Factors May Predict Persistent Pain After Orthopaedic Trauma Psychosocial factors strongly predicted persistent pain, pain-related work disability, and pain severity 6 months after non-life-threatening acute orthopaedic trauma. Clinical Review, June 2010
June 2, 2010 — Psychosocial factors may predict persistent pain after non–life-threatening acute orthopaedic trauma, according to the results of a...

The Revised Trauma Score is a physiological scoring system, with high inter-rater reliability and demonstrated accuracy in predicting death. It is scored from the first set of data obtained on the patient, and consists of Glasgow Coma Scale, Systolic Blood Pressure and Respiratory Rate.

Editorial by J.P.Waddell in Canadian Journal of Surgery reviewing the problem and some solutions. February 2008 Volume 51 Number 1

Patient handover between shifts has become a necessary part of practice in order to reduce the risk of medical errors. Data handed over between shifts are used to prioritise clinical jobs outstanding, and to create theatre lists. We present a closed-loop audit of handover practice to assess whether standardised handover...

The traditional view of injuries as "accidents", or random events, has resulted in the historical neglect of this area of public health. However, the most recent estimates show that injuries are among the leading causes of death and disability in the world. They affect all populations, regardless of age, sex,...

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
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References
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Major teaching resources in orthopaedic trauma. Requires registration for access to full text.

TraumAID Home Page
TraumAID is a program developed over the past twelve years to assist physicians with the diagnosis and treatment of penetrating trauma (gunshot and stab wounds) to the chest and abdomen. The project has subsequently expanded to encompass other emergency medicine related endeavors.

In Surgical Care at the District Hospital. WHO publication
Publication of the World Health Organization aimed at developing medical systems. Clinical procedures e-learning toolkit

OTA Paper 2004: A Study in 13,301 Patients from the German Trauma Registry
Purpose The NISS is a recent modification of the ISS, calculated from the sum of the squares of AIS for the three worst injuries, regardless of body region. The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive...

Some volunteer surgeons may be interested in providing care for civilian victims of war in developing countries. More commonly, volunteers will be increas- ingly confronted with nonintentional acute and chronic trauma cases, mostly from road traffic accidents. On rare occasions, they might even participate in the relief and reconstruction efforts...

The use of proxy surgical conditions to estimate the global burden of surgical disease Rachel T. Idowu, MD Thomas Weiser, MD, MPH Richard A. Gosselin, MD, MPH, MSc
Presentation at May 2009 meeting on the Global Burden of Surgical Disease. Powerpoint Archive - may need converter.

Road traffic injuries are a major but neglected public health challenge that requires concerted efforts for effective and sustainable prevention. Of all the systems with which people have to deal every day, road traffic systems are the most complex and the most dangerous. Worldwide, an estimated 1.2 million people are...