If that person could not be identified, the interviewer asked for the director of the emergency department, the hospital's medical director, or the director of nursing. All hospitals in the inventory were successfully surveyed. All trauma centers were classified into 1 of 5 levels ranging from ...
Maternal Trauma Associated With Low Male Infant Birthweight; Combo of trauma history, higher levels of cortisol linked to lower birthweight in boys only For each patient, injury severity score (ISS), new injury severity score (NISS), pediatric trauma score (PTS), revised trauma score (RTS), ...
efigure 8. forest plots describing the odds of mortality for children with major trauma (iss ≥ 12) treated at pediatric trauma centers (ptcs) vs adult trauma centers (atcs) efigure 9. forest plots describing the odds of mortality for children admitted to hospitals following trauma treated at...
Table 4. Mortality for the Adult Washington State Trauma Population Following Discharge Alive for Injury View LargeDownload 1. Mullins RJ, Mann NC, Hedges JR, et al. Adequacy of hospital discharge status as a measure of outcome among injured patients. JAMA. 1998;279(21):1727-17319624026Article...
well as all the equipment and personnel to keep them going. But many smaller hospitals lack this capacity, they are dependent on major medical centers, and local specialists and practices to supply what they need. The fact is that this pandemic has revealed just how unprepared we were for it...
Explosions account for 79% of combat related injuries and often lead to polytrauma, a majority of which include blast-induced traumatic brain injuries (bTBI). These injuries lead to internal bleeding in multiple organs and, in the case of bTBI, long term
Metabolism Unit Shriners Hospitals for Children Galveston TexasAmerican Journal of PhysiologyOgunbileje, J. O., Porter, C., Herndon, D. N., Chao, T., Abdelrahman, D. R., Papadimitriou, A., ... Sidossis L. S. (2016). Hypermetabolism and hypercatabolism of skeletal muscle accompany ...
Insulin resistance is often associated with increased levels of intracellular triglycerides, diacylglycerol and decreased fat β-oxidation. It was unknown if this relationship was present in patients with acute insulin resistance induced by trauma. A dou
Data comes from acute care hospitals in Texas for the period 1998–2004. Cost functions corresponding to four different levels of ED trauma care are estimated using a translog panel data model with hospital fixed effects. The marginal costs (in 2004 dollars) of each trauma center level are: $...
radiologists and technologists who ran the equipment were already familiar with it due to its extensive predeployment testing in San Antonio, Texas. Physical installation and initial maintenance of the CT equipment were also provided by manufacturer representatives, who deployed with the hospitals [8]....