Four Questions Nurses Can Ask to Predict PTSD 1 Year After a Motor Vehicle Crash.

Background: The role of nurses in screening for posttraumatic stress disorder is crucial in trauma units.

Objectives: To create and evaluate an easy and brief tool for nurses to predict chronic posttraumatic stress disorder 1 year after a motor vehicle crash.

Methods: We performed a 1-year follow-up multicenter study from 2007 to 2015, including 274 patients injured in a motor vehicle crash who were hospitalized in an orthopedic trauma unit.

[Sleep disorders and their treatment in post-traumatic stress disorder].

Subjects suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder present sleeping disorders like a chronic insomnia, traumatic nightmares, but also less expected, sleep breathing disorders. Sleep problems are a factor of development and maintenance of PTSD, but also a factor of resistance to treatment. After a therapy focused on PTSD, they represent frequent residual symptoms.