Analgesia

Sedation and analgesia

Jobs in Trauma

Subungual hematoma and nail bed trauma

Perioperative Management

Prehospital Airway Management for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

To the Editor: We are concerned that the study by Dr Hasegawa and colleagues on prehospital advanced airway management in patients with OHCA has not accounted for one important selection bias or confo...

Prehospital antiplatelets improve graft intervention outcomes

(HealthDay)—Prehospital use of antiplatelet therapy, either aspirin/clopidogrel or dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), is associated with a lower incidence of major adverse cardiac events after saphen...

Mobile Telesonography in Patients With Abdominal Trauma

A telesonography system capable of transmitting real-time ultrasound images from a prehospital setting could be a valuable tool in managing patients with abdominal trauma. BMC Emergency Medicine

Prehospital Shock Index Predicts Emergency Blood Transfusion

Prehospital shock index may serve as an early alert that an incoming trauma patient will need blood products and give clinicians time to prepare them. Medscape Medical News

[News] Parent-controlled analgesia for paediatric pain management

Patient-controlled analgesia, when managed by a parent whose child cannot administer the analgesia themselves, is a safe and effective method of pain relief, according to a study reported in the Jour...

Combined spinal-epidural technique offers faster and better-quality analgesia during early labor

During the first stage of labor, a combined spinal-epidural (CSE) technique offers faster and better-quality analgesia (pain relief) compared to traditional epidural analgesia, according to a report i...

Helicopter vs Ground Transportation for Patients With Trauma—Reply

In Reply: Dr Delgado and colleagues are concerned about bias resulting from not including transport times in the analysis. Although time was missing for 57.8% of data, we performed a sensitivity analy...

Spinal Analgesia, Colonic Resection and an Enhanced Recovery

What is the impact of regional analgesia on postoperative outcome after abdominal surgery? British Journal of Anaesthesia

Physician staffed ambulances are better for patient's analgesia on arrival at the emergency department.

OBJECTIVES: To find out prehospital factors linked with low pain on arrival into a traumatic emergency unit. METHODS: A 4-month monocentric prospective study, including patients recruited at their arr...

Special aspects of the emergency medical care of head and neck injuries.

The overall incidence of severe head, face and neck injuries as seen from the German Trauma Registry of the National Association of German Trauma Surgeons is 81.3%. The leading causes of death among t...

Prehospital trauma systems reduce mortality in developing countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

The majority of trauma deaths in the developing world occur outside of the hospital. In the mid-1990s, preliminary studies of prehospital trauma systems showed improvements in mortality. However, no e...

Preclinical prediction of prehospital injury severity by emergency physicians : Approach to evaluate validity.

BACKGROUND: The prognosis of polytraumatized patients is basically dependent on the quality of emergency room (ER) management and a smooth transition from prehospital emergency therapy to ER therapy i...

Extended medical quality management exemplified by the tracer diagnosis multiple trauma : Pilot study in the air rescue service.

Adequate prehospital and inhospital primary care is a decisive factor in the successful treatment of multiple trauma patients. For optimization of treatment algorithms the implementation of a medical...