Incidence of cervical spine injury in victims of dismounted blast: a systematic review.

Introduction: Dismounted blast has the potential to cause life-threatening injuries to multiple simultaneous casualties, including injury to the cervical spine (c-spine). Spinal immobilisation can be costly in terms of time and personnel required to apply and sustain it. C-spine 'clearing' tools frequently do not apply to the blast-injured casualty, so clinical judgement must be used to determine those requiring c-spine immobilisation.

Changes in opioid prescribing and prescription drug monitoring program utilization following electronic health record integration-Massachusetts, 2018.

Objective: In this study, we explored key prescription drug monitoring program-related outcomes among clinicians from a broad cohort of Massachusetts healthcare facilities following prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) and electronic health record (EHR) data integration.

Methods: Outcomes included seven-day rolling averages of opioids prescribed, morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) prescribed, and PDMP queries. We employed a longitudinal study design to analyze PDMP data over a 15-month study period which allowed for six and a half months of pre- and post-integration observations surrounding a two-month integration period.

Understanding the burden of injury in children from conflict: an analysis of radiological imaging from a Role 3 hospital in Afghanistan in 2011.

Introduction: There is a need for quality medical care for children injured in conflict, but a description of injuries and injury burden from blast and ballistic mechanisms is lacking. The radiology records of children imaged during the war in Afghanistan represent a valuable source of information about the patterns of paediatric conflict injuries.

Methods: The UK military radiological database was searched for all paediatric presentations to Camp Bastion during 2011.