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...

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...

Look up Trauma, trauma, Traumata, traumata, or traumatic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Trauma most often refers to: Major trauma, in physical medicine...

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...

Blunt trauma, also known as blunt force trauma or non-penetrating trauma, describes a physical trauma due to a forceful impact without penetration of...

Vaginal trauma is injury to the vagina. It can happen during childbirth, sexual assault, and accidental occurrences. In adults, the vagina is largely protected...

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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limb deformities. Trauma surgery and traumatology is a sub-specialty dealing with the operative management of fractures, major trauma and the multiply-injured...

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...

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...

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...

acid is a medication used to treat or prevent excessive blood loss from major trauma, postpartum bleeding, surgery, tooth removal, nosebleeds, and heavy menstruation...

randomized, controlled clinical trial, and is given to people with major bleeding after trauma. There are several possible risks to treating coagulopathies...

a weakened immune system from conditions such as cancer or diabetes, major trauma, and burns. Previously, a sepsis diagnosis required the presence of at...

Risk factors include diabetes, peripheral arterial disease, smoking, major trauma, alcoholism, HIV/AIDS, frostbite, influenza, dengue fever, malaria, chickenpox...

trauma severity. It correlates with mortality, morbidity and hospitalization time after trauma. It is used to define the term major trauma. A major trauma...

This call gets specialist doctors and trauma teams to the location for assistance in things like major traumas and deteriorating patients in situations...

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...

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...

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...

Ehlers–Danlos syndrome; a bicuspid aortic valve; and previous heart surgery. Major trauma, smoking, cocaine use, pregnancy, a thoracic aortic aneurysm, inflammation...

lobectomy or pneumonectomy for lung cancer or to gain thoracic access in major trauma. There are many different surgical approaches to performing a thoracotomy...

Transgenerational trauma is the psychological and physiological effects that the trauma experienced by people has on subsequent generations in that group...

(EDT), trauma thoracotomy or, colloquially, as "cracking the chest") is a thoracotomy performed to aid in the resuscitation of a major trauma patient...

include organ failure. Relatively common causes include sepsis, surgery, major trauma, cancer, and complications of pregnancy. Less common causes include snake...

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...

occurs as a result of vasculitis or chemotherapy, or during recovery from major trauma or burns. Cholecystitis is suspected based on symptoms and laboratory...

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...

Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing...