The NACA score predicts mortality in polytrauma patients before hospital admission: a registry-based study.

Background: The early assessment of the severity of polytrauma patients is key for their optimal management. The aim of this study was to investigate the discriminative performance of the NACA score in a large dataset by stratifying the severity of polytraumatized patients in correlation to injury severity score (ISS), Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), and mortality.

Methods: This study on the Swiss Trauma Registry investigated 2239 polytraumatized patient (54.

Metallic foreign body in the ulnar nerve in the Guyon's canal and Review of the Literature.

The authors present a rare case of a 61-year-old patient with a metal foreign body inside the ulnar nerve in the Guyon's canal. After the surgical removal the motor function was not impaired. At 6-month follow up from the surgical removal, the patient showed a complete motor and sensory function.