Abdominal solid organ injury in trauma patients with pelvic bone fractures.

Background: We analyzed the clinical progression of trauma patients with pelvic bone fractures so to determine the risk factors associated with sustaining concurrent abdominal solid organ injuries.

Methods: This study was a retrospective chart review. Subjects were categorized based on injury type: solid organ versus non-solid organ injury groups.

Post-Nargis medical care: experience of a Korean Disaster Relief Team in Myanmar after the cyclone.

The objective of this study was to assess the epidemiology and clinical data of patients observed by the Korean Disaster Relief Team, during its deployment in Myanmar, from 6 to 12 June 2008. A cross-sectional, medical record-based study in the Korean Disaster Relief Team clinic, established a month after the cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar. Data collected included demographic variables, and whether or not the problem was acute or chronic, and traumatic or medical.

Neurologic sequela of hydrogen sulfide poisoning.

A 25-year-old man, a field operator in a petroleum refinery was found unconscious. He was exposed to hydrogen sulfide and presented with Glasgow Coma Score of 5, severe hypoxemia on arterial blood gas analysis, normal chest radiography, and normal blood pressure. On hospital day 7, his mental state became clear, and neurologic examination showed quadriparesis, profound spasticity, increased tendon reflexes, abnormal Babinski response, and bradykinesia.