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Rev Col Bras Cir
January 2025
- School of Medical Sciences Orebro university, Department of Surgery - Orebro - OR - Suécia.
Introduction: Hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable deaths in trauma patients, resulting in 1.5 million deaths annually worldwide. Traditional trauma assessment follows the ABC (airway, breathing, circulation) sequence; evidence suggests the CAB (circulation, airway, breathing) approach to maintain perfusion and prevent hypotension.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Family Med Prim Care
December 2024
Neurology Neurophysiology Center, Vienna, Austria.
A patient with a history of Asian flu, mumps meningo-encephalitis, and skull-base fracture and severe porencephaly who was able to walk without assistance, has not been reported. The patient is a 65 year-old male with a history of Asian flu at 6 months of age, Mumps meningoencephalitis at 6 years of age, structural epilepsy since 15 years of age, traumatic brain injury with skull-base fracture at 51 years of age, arterial hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, previous alcoholism, and polyneuropathy. He presented with only mild right-sided spastic hemiparesis, dysarthria, decreased tendon reflexes in the lower limbs, spastic-ataxic gait, but he was able to walk unassisted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Emerg Med
January 2025
Departamento de Cardiología, Fundación Valle del Lili, Carrera 98 No. 18 - 49, Cali, 760032, Colombia.
Background: Penetrating cardiac trauma is an entity with high pre and intrahospital mortality due to complications such as cardiac tamponade and massive hemothorax. A ventricular septal defect (VSD) occurs in 1-5% of cases and can present early or late. The management strategy for VSD resulting from penetrating cardiac trauma is uncertain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeg Med (Tokyo)
January 2025
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Electronic address:
Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome (WFS) is a rare but life-threatening condition characterized by massive adrenal hemorrhage. WFS represents one of the features of the Overwhelming Post-Splenectomy Infection, which occurs any time after spleen removal and is recognized as the most serious complication in asplenic patients. We report a fatal case of WFS resulting from Streptococcus pneumoniae infection in a vaccinated and splenectomized patient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther
January 2025
After severe trauma, but also perioperatively, massive bleeding is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. In severely injured patients, hemorrhagic shock remains to be the main cause of death in addition to traumatic brain hemorrhage. In non-cardiac surgery, a surgical bleeding complication increases perioperative morbidity (intensive care length of stay, acute renal failure, infections, thromboembolic complications) by a factor of three to four and mortality by a factor of six.
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