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#ThisIsOurLane: Incorporating Gun Violence Prevention into Clinical Care
Current Trauma Reports - Tập 5 - Trang 169-173 - 2019
This article reviews the medical community’s evolving perspective on its role in gun violence prevention efforts, particularly evaluating the evidence for and potential impact of patient education and firearm safety counseling. Growing numbers of physicians and professional medical societies recognize gun violence as a public health crisis and are increasingly supporting a more active role for the......
Older Adult Falls: Effective Approaches to Prevention
Current Trauma Reports - Tập 3 - Trang 118-123 - 2017
The issue of older adult falls combines a problem with high incidence and high injury susceptibility with an increasing population at risk. A firm understanding of both fall risk factors and effective strategies is required to reduce risk and prevent these injuries. Each year, 28.7% of older adults aged ≥65 sustain a fall. At the national level, this represents 29 million falls resulting in 27,000......
Percutaneous Treatment of Iatrogenic and Traumatic Injury of the Biliary System
Current Trauma Reports - Tập 3 - Trang 196-206 - 2017
Traumatic or iatrogenic bile duct injury (BDI) includes bile leaks, benign stenoses, and fistulae. These complications result in significant morbidity and mortality. This review will provide insight into the presentation, diagnosis, classification, and percutaneous management of BDI. Prompt diagnosis through non-invasive imaging and minimally invasive procedures is paramount to improved patient ou......
Venous Thromboembolism Among Military Combat Casualties
Current Trauma Reports - Tập 2 - Trang 48-53 - 2016
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) complicates trauma no matter whether injuries occur in the civilian or combat setting. Combat casualty care is further challenged by the requirement to rapidly evacuate patients by air from the combat zone to definitive care destinations in the USA. The Joint Trauma System (JTS) is charged with ensuring optimal management of the combat injured across the global care co......
Addressing Surgeon Burnout Through a Multi-level Approach: A National Call to Action
Current Trauma Reports - Tập 9 - Trang 28-39 - 2023
Physician burnout is an epidemic and there are unique aspects of surgery that dictate rates of burnout among general surgeons and surgical trainees. This review characterizes the scope of burnout and its drivers within the field of surgery and advocates for strategies to address burnout at the individual, institutional, and national levels. Rates of burnout in surgery are increasing with higher nu......
Diversifying Medical School and Residency Programs: a Practical Guide for Gatekeepers
Current Trauma Reports - Tập 8 - Trang 61-65 - 2022
The physician workforce in the USA does not reflect the diversity of the nation’s population, and this lack of diversity contributes to current healthcare disparities. We provide a brief review of strategies that may help medical educators enhance the diversity of their medical schools or residency programs. Crafting a mission statement, active recruiting, expanding the application screening proce......
Performance Improvement in Combat Casualty Care
Current Trauma Reports - Tập 4 - Trang 71-76 - 2018
The purpose of this review is to examine the necessity for performance improvement and its application in combat casualty care. The review looks at this from the perspectives of local and system-wide efforts. Performance improvement efforts contributed to the overall improvement in mortality seen during the past 15 years of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. While many efforts started at a......
Laparoscopy in Blunt Abdominal Trauma: for Whom? When?and Why?
Current Trauma Reports - Tập 3 - Trang 43-50 - 2017
The management of blunt abdominal trauma has evolved over time. While laparotomy is the standard of care in hemodynamically unstable patients, stable patients are usually treated by non-operative management (NOM), incorporating adjuncts such as interventional radiology. However, although NOM has shown good results in solid organ injuries, other lesions, namely those involving the hollow viscus, di......
The Worldwide Approach to Vision Zero: Implementing Road Safety Strategies to Eliminate Traffic-Related Fatalities
Current Trauma Reports - Tập 3 - Trang 104-110 - 2017
This review describes the principle of Vision Zero in traffic safety and its adoption into the worldwide community. The Vision Zero policy seeks to reduce fatalities and serious injuries from road traffic accidents to zero. This review aims to show how this philosophy has affected policies and prevention strategies throughout the world. The Vision Zero policy has been adopted throughout Europe as ......
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