Volume 7 Supplement 1
Proceedings of the World Trauma Congress 2012
Proceedings
Edited by Ari Leppäniemi, Gustavo P Fraga and Sandro Rizoli
World Trauma Congress 2012.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil22-25 August 2012
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Citation: World Journal of Emergency Surgery 2012 7(Suppl 1):S1
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The world of trauma working together
Citation: World Journal of Emergency Surgery 2012 7(Suppl 1):S2 -
TEG® and ROTEM® in trauma: similar test but different results?
Transfusion in trauma is often empiric or based on traditional lab tests. Viscoelastic tests such as thromboelastography (TEG ® ) and rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM ...
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Enhancing trauma education worldwide through telemedicine
Advances in information and communication technologies are changing the delivery of trauma care and education. Telemedicine is a tool that can be used to deliver expert trauma care and education anywhere in th...
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Fatal motorcycle crashes: a serious public health problem in Brazil
The numbers of two-wheel vehicles are growing across the world. In comparison to other vehicles, motorcycles are cheaper and thus represent a significant part of the automobile market. Both the mobility and sp...
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Comparison between two mobile pre-hospital care services for trauma patients
Pre-hospital care (PH) in Brazil is currently in the phase of implementation and expansion, and there are few studies on the impacts of this public health service. The purpose of this study is to assess the qu...
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The utility of recombinant factor VIIa as a last resort in trauma
The use of recombinant factor VII (rFVIIa) as a last resort for the management of coagulopathy when there is severe metabolic acidosis during large bleedings in trauma might be deemed inappropriate. The object...
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Nonoperative management for patients with grade IV blunt hepatic trauma
The treatment of complex liver injuries remains a challenge. Nonoperative treatment for such injuries is increasingly being adopted as the initial management strategy. We reviewed our experience, at a Universi...
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Permissive hypotension does not reduce regional organ perfusion compared to normotensive resuscitation: animal study with fluorescent microspheres
The objective of this study was to investigate regional organ perfusion acutely following uncontrolled hemorrhage in an animal model that simulates a penetrating vascular injury and accounts for prehospital ti...
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Alcohol acute intoxication before sepsis impairs the wound healing of intestinal anastomosis: rat model of the abdominal trauma patient
Most trauma patients are drunk at the time of injury. Up to 2% of traumatized patients develop sepsis, which considerably increases their mortality. Inadequate wound healing of the colonic repair can lead to p...
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Surgical telepresence: the usability of a robotic communication platform
The benefits of telepresence in trauma and acute surgical care exist, yet its use in a live, operating room (OR) setting with real surgical cases remains limited.
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Extra-curricular supervised training at an academic hospital: is 200 hours the threshold for medical students to perform well in an emergency room?
Due to high number of jobs in Emergency Medicine (EM) and the lack of specialist to work in this field, recent graduates work in the emergency room straight after medical school. Additional courses on EM are a...
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The scientific production in trauma of an emerging country
The study aims to examine whether the end of specialty in trauma surgery in 2003 influenced the scientific productivity of the area in Brazil.
Citation: World Journal of Emergency Surgery 2012 7(Suppl 1):S13