Injury

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that from 2018-2020 there were 94,700 off-highway vehicle accidents with 92% of those injuries related to all-terrain vehicles (ATV). An estimated 300 deaths were in children less than age 16. There has not been any previous evaluation of urethral injuries resulting from ATV accidents. We sought to define the volume and demographics of ATV-related urethral injuries.

This study aimed to assess the learning curve of REBOA from the first case in trauma centers using cumulative sum (CUSUM) analysis.

The timing of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) notification, crash scene arrival, and hospital arrival may impact motor vehicle fatalities. We examined EMS response time intervals over the past three decades, considering the effects of weather, vehicles involved, time of day, and location.

Hip fracture care requires timely diagnosis, expedited surgery, and high-risk inpatient management. Failures along this pathway can result in patient harm and malpractice exposure. This review synthesized cross-jurisdiction malpractice trends and inflation-adjusted liability payments associated with adult hip fracture care.

Various factors can influence the survival of patients with severe burns. One of these factors could be the day or time of the burn injury. There are studies describing worse outcomes and higher mortality, as well as longer hospital stays, for emergency presentations at night and weekends for certain conditions. This study evaluates data from multiple burn centers, to analyse whether the day of the week, time of day or season of the year when a severe burn injury occurs has an impact on patient survival in a single patient cohort.

Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are a leading cause of injury and death in the United States. Community-level factors, such as social vulnerability and urbanicity, have been associated with risk of death; less is known about how these factors impact nonfatal, post-injury outcomes. This study examined the association between social vulnerability and urbanicity with hospital length of stay (LOS) and hospital discharge disposition among MVC patients.

Antibiotic-laden beads provide high, local concentrations of antibiotics and are used to prevent infections in open fractures. This study aimed to determine if wound management with antibiotic beads was associated with fewer surgical site infections (SSI) and unplanned fracture-related operations in patients with severe lower extremity open fractures.

Septic tibial nonunion regarding proximal metaphysis is a rare complication with devastating results.

Traumatic spine fractures often occur with multisystem injuries. Pelvic and transverse process (TP) fractures have been linked to visceral trauma, but whether the pelvis behaves as an “organ protective” structure in spine injury is unclear.

To investigate the appropriateness of lower doses of loxoprofen in patients with type two diabetes (T2D) with bone fractures/surgeries in comparison to common NSAIDs.