Publications by authors named "Christopher Pickering"
Introduction: Penetrating Neck Injuries (PNIs) affected 3.2% of trauma patients attending US and UK deployed medical treatment facilities (MTFs) during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Injured military personnel requiring aeromedical evacuation for such injuries were managed at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM), Birmingham, UK.
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- - The study focuses on the management of civilian penetrating neck trauma (PNT) at a UK trauma center, analyzing 310 cases from April 2012 to November 2017.
- - Findings indicate that most PNT cases involved males with an average age of 36, primarily resulting from assaults and self-harm, while the common tool used was knives.
- - The research suggests that a clinical and radiological approach to managing PNT is effective, with a proposed decision-making algorithm to improve the management process based on the correlation between signs, imaging, and surgical outcomes.