Background Traumatic injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but
epidemiologic data about trauma patients who require intensive care unit (ICU) admission …

Aim This study explores the perceptions of intensive care units (ICUs) nurses with different
educational backgrounds regarding their abilities in trauma care and the in-service …

Purpose Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and chest trauma are common injuries in severely
injured patients. Both entities are well known to be associated with severe post-traumatic …

Severe injuries, such as burns, provoke a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)
that imposes pathology on all organs. Simultaneously, severe injury also elicits activation of …

Introducción: El trauma es considerado un problema de salud pública a nivel mundial.
También es causa importante de morbilidad y mortalidad en el mundo. Objetivo: Identificar …

Background Although mortality rates following major trauma are continuing to decline, a
growing number of patients are experiencing long-term disability. The aim of this study was …

Background Failure-to-rescue is defined as the conditional probability of death after a
complication, and the failure-to-rescue rate reflects a center's ability to successfully “rescue” …

Background In the recent years, National Early Warning Score2 (NEWS2) is utilized to
predict early on, the worsening of clinical status in patients. To this date the predictive …

METHODS We performed a (2017) analysis of the Trauma Quality Improvement Program
database. We included adult (age,≥ 18 years) blunt and penetrating trauma patients who …

Background The prevalence and outcomes of trauma patients requiring an unplanned return
to the intensive care unit (ICU) and those initially admitted to a step-down unit or floor and …