Trauma Evaluation News Today

How prevalent are clinically important traumatic injuries among children presenting with a drowning encounter? Should radiographic studies be the general norm for assessing trauma in these children?

A critical care physician helps triage injured children as an accident scene spirals out of control.

A head-to-head comparison of two forms of abbreviated exposure therapy in US military personnel resulted in substantial relief from PTSD symptoms that lasted well after the studys end.

A retrospective study also found that women wait longer for trauma care in the emergency department than men do.

Interestingly, sparring in professional mixed martial arts may provide both harmful and protective effects to the brains of professional fighters, new research suggests.

Ultrasonography experts have developed consensus-based definitions for the Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (FAST) tests to assist in decision-making for children who have suffered blunt abdominal trauma.