Objectives To determine the epidemiological characteristics of fatal traffic accidents in Fars
province, Iran. Study design This cross-sectional study included 3642 traffic accident deaths …

Objective: To record and classify mechanisms of injury and injury severity score (ISS) in
trauma patients admitted to the largest trauma center in Southern Iran. Methods: This was a …

Objective: To determine the epidemiology and pattern of emergency operating room
workload in Nemazee hospital affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz …

We eagerly read and appreciate your weighty journal's hint on the subject flail chest in the
April 2010 issue [1]. We wish to respectfully comment on this subject, since we strongly …

We would like to comment on the great work done by Bhatnagar and colleagues on the
subject of flail chest in the August 2012 issue of the Journal, in which they reviewed …

Background Considering the limited available resources, high cost of the helicopter
emergency medical service (HEMS), and high load of trauma patients especially in our …

Iread with much interest the review article published in the June issue of the Journal of
Trauma regarding the open abdomen. 1 In our department, there is a constant “tug of war” …

We read with regard to the article entitled ''Reduction in mortality in severely injured patients
following the introduction of the ''treatment of patients with severe and multiple …

We wish to thank the members of the Sheffield Surgical Journal Club for recently discussing
our publication regarding the surgical treatment of children with perforated appendicitis. With …

To begin with, we would like to congratulate and appreciate the great work done by Sharpe
and colleagues 1 in defining an algorithm for managing trauma patients with penetrating …