A new survival status prediction system for severe trauma patients based on a multiple classifier system.

Background And Objective: Severe trauma patients are those who have several injuries implying a death risk. Prediction systems consider the severity of these injuries to predict whether the patients are likely to survive or not. These systems allow one to objectively compare the quality of the emergency services of trauma centres across different hospitals.

Major trauma registry of Navarre (Spain): the accuracy of different survival prediction models.

Objective: To determine which factors predict death among trauma patients who are alive on arrival at hospital.

Methods: Design prospective cohort study method. Data were collected on 378 trauma patients who were initially delivered by the emergency medical services of Navarre (Spain) with multiple injuries with a new injury severity score of 15 or more in 2011-2012.

Extravasation of radiographic contrast material and compartment syndrome in the hand: a case report.

Radiocontrast agents are a type of medical contrast material used to improve the visibility of internal bodily structures in X-ray based imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT) or radiography. Radiocontrast agents are typically iodine or barium compounds.Extravasation of contrast is a possible complication of imaging studies performed with contrasts.

[Quality and accreditation of emergency departments].

The concept of quality has been linked to the health care world since the remote past and is one of the strategic elements on which the transformation and improvement of modern health systems is based. Study of quality in health care involves different approaches given that it holds different meanings for patients, professionals and managers. In recent years formal systems of quality management have been progressively introduced, such as certification according to the ISO-9000 Norms, the system of accreditation of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the European Model of Excellence (EFQM).