Publications by authors named "Tegan Schmidt"
Background: Cervical epidural hematoma (CEH) is defined as a collection of blood in the suprameningeal space. Mechanisms of this rare pathology include spontaneous, postsurgical, and traumatic as the main subtypes. This unique case of traumatic CEH represents an even smaller subset of these cases.
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- Body stuffing involves swallowing illicit drugs to evade law enforcement, which can lead to serious medical emergencies due to hasty ingestion of unsafe substances.
- A case is presented of a 16-year-old male facing complications like esophageal edema and hydro-pneumothorax after ingesting drugs, specifically found packaged in a plastic bag lodged in his esophagus.
- Medical staff in detention centers should consider body stuffing as a potential issue when evaluating patients with symptoms such as chest and abdominal pain to avoid delays in diagnosis and treatment.
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- The study evaluates how patient and injury factors affect functional outcomes post-ankle fracture in 1,000 patients, focusing on characteristics like age, gender, and substance use.
- Patients completed surveys measuring foot function and musculoskeletal health around six years after their surgeries, revealing that tobacco use, obesity, and female gender correlated with worse outcomes.
- The findings suggest that personal factors significantly influence recovery more than the specifics of the ankle injury itself.
Introduction: The purpose of our study was to evaluate the factors that influence the timing of definitive fixation in the management of bilateral femoral shaft fractures and the outcomes for patients with these injuries.
Methods: Patients with bilateral femur fractures treated between 1998 to 2019 at ten level-1 trauma centers were retrospectively reviewed. Patients were grouped into early or delayed fixation, which was defined as definitive fixation of both femurs within or greater than 24 hours from injury, respectively.
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- The study analyzed complications in patients with bilateral femur fractures treated with intramedullary nailing (IMN) in either a single or two-stage procedure across 10 trauma centers from 1998 to 2018.
- A total of 246 patients were assessed, revealing that the single-stage procedure had a significantly lower incidence of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) compared to the two-stage procedure, although in-hospital mortality was slightly higher in the single-stage group without statistical significance.
- The findings suggest that single-stage IMN may reduce ARDS risk in polytrauma patients, indicating a need for future studies to further explore mortality impacts and identify at-risk individuals.
Introduction: It is well known that patients with diabetes mellitus experience higher complication rates after torsional ankle fracture; however, the functional consequences remain less clear. The goal of this study was to determine the effects of diabetes on complications, secondary operations, and functional outcomes after torsional ankle fracture.
Methods: Nine hundred seventy-nine adult patients treated surgically for a torsional ankle injury (Orthopaedic Trauma Association 44B, 44C) over 13 years were retrospectively reviewed.