ALLMedicine™ Neck Trauma Center

Sep 7th, 2020 - Despite being common, neck injuries have received relatively little attention for important quality of care metrics. This study sought to determine the association between blunt and penetrating neck injuries on mortality and length of stay, and to...

Sep 5th, 2020 - Penetrating neck trauma (PNT) continues to present a diagnostic dilemma. Practice guidelines advocate the use of computed tomography angiography (CTA) for suspected vascular or aerodigestive injuries in all neck zones. There is also an evolving ev...

Aug 2nd, 2020 - Patients undergoing trigger-site deactivation surgery for headaches report a high prevalence (approximately 37 percent) of prior head or neck injury. Traditional medical treatment often fails to treat these posttraumatic patients. It is unclear wh...

Jul 9th, 2020 - Tracheobronchial injuries are rare but feasibly life-threatening conditions. A prompt diagnosis and early management can be lifesaving. Due to the unspecific symptoms and indirect radiological signs the diagnosis often delays. We present a short s...

Jul 1st, 2020 - Excellence in teaching and learning is fundamental to the provision of quality training for doctors and for this a sound knowledge of the principles of adult learning theory is important. We present an educational course in head and neck trauma sk...

Oct 31st, 2017 - In patients with penetrating neck injuries with clinical soft injury signs, and patients with hard signs of injury who do not require immediate surgery, CT angiography of the neck is the preferred imaging procedure to evaluate extent of injury. Ot.

Sep 7th, 2020 - Despite being common, neck injuries have received relatively little attention for important quality of care metrics. This study sought to determine the association between blunt and penetrating neck injuries on mortality and length of stay, and to...

Sep 5th, 2020 - Penetrating neck trauma (PNT) continues to present a diagnostic dilemma. Practice guidelines advocate the use of computed tomography angiography (CTA) for suspected vascular or aerodigestive injuries in all neck zones. There is also an evolving ev...

Aug 2nd, 2020 - Patients undergoing trigger-site deactivation surgery for headaches report a high prevalence (approximately 37 percent) of prior head or neck injury. Traditional medical treatment often fails to treat these posttraumatic patients. It is unclear wh...

Jul 9th, 2020 - Tracheobronchial injuries are rare but feasibly life-threatening conditions. A prompt diagnosis and early management can be lifesaving. Due to the unspecific symptoms and indirect radiological signs the diagnosis often delays. We present a short s...

Jul 1st, 2020 - Excellence in teaching and learning is fundamental to the provision of quality training for doctors and for this a sound knowledge of the principles of adult learning theory is important. We present an educational course in head and neck trauma sk...

Nov 26th, 2017 - Dissection normally occurs in the extracranial segment of the epiaortic vessels. The internal carotid artery is affected more often than the vertebral artery.[2] Dissections can be classified as traumatic or spontaneous. Traumatic dissections are ...

Aug 19th, 2014 - Action Points This editorial suggests that the high-sensitivity of MRI may lead to clinically irrelevant diagnoses when the modality is used to evaluate cervical tenderness after trauma. The study under discussion examined outcomes in patients who...

Feb 25th, 2014 - SAN DIEGO – Eleven of every 100,000 patients younger than 50 years who were seen for traumatic injury developed an ischemic stroke within 4 weeks, a study of data on 1. 3 million people found.