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    Major trauma is any injury that has the potential to cause prolonged disability or death. There are many causes of major trauma, blunt and penetrating...
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  • A major trauma centre (MTC) is a specialist unit within the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, set up to provide specialised trauma care and...
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  • level of major trauma Major trauma, in physical medicine, severe physical injury caused by an external source Trauma may also refer to: Trauma (wrestler)...
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  • A trauma center, or trauma centre, is a hospital equipped and staffed to provide care for patients suffering from major traumatic injuries such as falls...
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    Blunt trauma, also known as blunt force trauma or non-penetrating trauma, describes a physical trauma due to a forceful impact without penetration of...
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    in the foyer of the Cambridge Wing. St Mary's Hospital is one of four major trauma centres in London. The other three are: King's College Hospital in Denmark...
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    Traumatology (redirect from Trauma medicine)
    Research Major trauma Polytrauma Trauma surgery Traumatology (journal) Emotional and Psychological Trauma: Learning to Heal from Recent or Childhood Trauma and...
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  • Vaginal trauma is injury to the vagina. It can happen during childbirth, sexual assault, and accidental occurrences. In adults, the vagina is largely protected...
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    for Trauma Sciences, part of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, has a strong clinical partnership with the hospital's Major Trauma Centre...
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    acid is a medication used to treat or prevent excessive blood loss from major trauma, postpartum bleeding, surgery, tooth removal, nosebleeds, and heavy menstruation...
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  • limb deformities. Trauma surgery and traumatology is a sub-specialty dealing with the operative management of fractures, major trauma and the multiply-injured...
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    a weakened immune system from conditions such as cancer or diabetes, major trauma, and burns. Previously, a sepsis diagnosis required the presence of at...
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    disseminate military trauma care practices. One such practice is to transfer major trauma cases to an operating theater as soon as possible, to stop internal bleeding...
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  • Trauma surgery is a surgical specialty that utilizes both operative and non-operative management to treat traumatic injuries, typically in an acute setting...
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  • trauma severity. It correlates with mortality, morbidity and hospitalization time after trauma. It is used to define the term major trauma. A major trauma...
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    randomized, controlled clinical trial, and is given to people with major bleeding after trauma. There are several possible risks to treating coagulopathies...
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    Risk factors include diabetes, peripheral arterial disease, smoking, major trauma, alcoholism, HIV/AIDS, frostbite, influenza, dengue fever, malaria, chickenpox...
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  • This call gets specialist doctors and trauma teams to the location for assistance in things like major traumas and deteriorating patients in situations...
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    Ehlers–Danlos syndrome; a bicuspid aortic valve; and previous heart surgery. Major trauma, smoking, cocaine use, pregnancy, a thoracic aortic aneurysm, inflammation...
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    the world to treat shock. Shock Trauma was founded by R Adams Cowley, considered the father and major innovator of trauma medicine. While serving in the...
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    common risk factors are obesity and older age. Other risk factors include major trauma, scoliosis, and certain types of surgery. There are two main types: sliding...
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  • Polytrauma (redirect from Poly trauma)
    Polytrauma and multiple trauma are medical terms describing the condition of a person who has been subjected to multiple traumatic injuries, such as a...
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    for major trauma injuries, especially when they occur in rural or isolated areas. The well-established theory of the golden hour suggests that major trauma...
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  • The Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium (METRC) is a network of clinical centers centered at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...
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    of the London Major Trauma Network, Professor of Trauma Sciences at Queen Mary University of London and a Consultant vascular and trauma surgeon for Barts...
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    include organ failure. Relatively common causes include sepsis, surgery, major trauma, cancer, and complications of pregnancy. Less common causes include snake...
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  • Transgenerational trauma is the psychological and physiological effects that the trauma experienced by people has on subsequent generations in that group...
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    lobectomy or pneumonectomy for lung cancer or to gain thoracic access in major trauma. There are many different surgical approaches to performing a thoracotomy...
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    facilities for angioplasty. Major trauma, the term for patients with multiple injuries, often from a motor vehicle crash or a major fall, is initially handled...
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    occurs as a result of vasculitis or chemotherapy, or during recovery from major trauma or burns. Cholecystitis is suspected based on symptoms and laboratory...
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