Quad bike injuries at an Australian regional hospital: a trauma registry review.

Background: Quad bikes are a prominent cause of morbidity and mortality in Australia in both agriculture and recreation. This study describes the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of quad bike injuries at the Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH).

Methods: A retrospective review of the RDH Trauma Registry for all quad bike mechanism of injury from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2015 was conducted.

The performance of trauma team activation criteria at an Australian regional hospital.

Objective: It is common practice for hospitals to use a trauma team activation criteria (TTAC) to identify patients at risk of major trauma and to activate a multidisciplinary team to receive such patients on arrival to the ED. The aims of this study are to describe the frequency of individual criteria and the ability of one currently used system to predict major trauma, and to estimate the effect of simplified criteria on the prediction.

Design And Setting: A retrospective observational study of the entire cohort of adult patients who a) received trauma team activation or b) were included in the trauma registry of Royal Darwin Hospital in 2015.

Management of Diabetic Surgical Patients in a Deployed Field Hospital: A Model for Acute Non-Communicable Disease Care in Disaster.

Sudden onset disasters (SODs) have affected over 1.5 billion of the world's population in the past decade. During the same time, developing nations have faced a sustained increase in the burden of non-communicable disease (NCD) with extra pressure placed on health systems.

Characteristics of trauma mortality in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Background: While factors including remoteness, alcohol consumption, age and Indigenous ethnicity are well-documented associations of trauma mortality, less is known of trauma seasonality. This is particularly relevant to Australia's Northern Territory, with its tropical regions experiencing a climate of wet (hot and humid) and dry (warm) seasons annually. The aim of this study was to therefore, examine the characteristics of trauma mortality in the Top End, Northern Territory, Australia.

Ten years of trauma in the 'top end' of the Northern Territory, Australia: a retrospective analysis.

Aim: To examine characteristics of traumatic injury in adults and children at the Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) over a 10 year period.

Method: A retrospective review of the RDH Trauma Registry data from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2012, with analysis of patient demographics, mechanism of injury, Injury Severity Score (ISS), and outcome.

Participants: Two thousand seven hundred twenty-five patients with an ISS greater than or equal to 9 and met all other study inclusion criteria.