Injury Extra Vol 40 Iss 8 Aug 2009

Combined Australasian Trauma Society and Trauma Association of Canada Abstracts
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Outcomes of femoral shaft fractures in patients treated at an Australian Level 1 Trauma Centre Page 139 D. Rodda, T. Keith, B. Gong, M. Richardson
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Entering the “triad of death” and the concept of futility in the use of recombinant activated factor VII Pages 139-140 L.E. Phillips, V. Nguyen, P.A. Cameron
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Massive transfusion in trauma: What is the best blood product ratio for a trauma exsanguination protocol? Page 140 Catherine Hurn
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Proposal for a radical change to prehospital trauma triage guidelines in Victoria, Australia Page 140 M. Boyle
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Pre-hospital intubation for Traumatic Brain Injury: A systematic review Page 140 L. Pattuwage, M. Cincotta, O. Clavisi, P. Bragge, J. Wasiak, E. Tavender, P. Ghe Tan, R. Gruen
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Current management in paediatric splenic trauma Page 141 D. Robinson, J. Hamill
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Child restraint system use in vehicles in Victoria, Australia Page 141 C. Bevan, C. Palmer, V. Gorman, C. Officer
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The role of CT in the head-injured child: A Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne perspective Page 141 V. Gorman, C.S. Palmer
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The true spectrum of handlebar injuries in children Pages 141-142 C. Palmer, S. Arul, J. Crameri
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Initial experience with Minimally Invasive Surgery in paediatric trauma Page 142 A. Desphande, S. Faraj, S.V.S. Soundappan, D. Cass
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Provision of psychological services to traumatic injury survivors: An integrated model of service delivery Page 142 A.L. Browne, R. French, S. Rao
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Staff perceptions and management of difficult and aggressive behaviours among acute trauma patients Pages 142-143 C. Pigliardo, L. Bird, S. Andrews, R. French, A.L. Browne
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All terrain vehicle accidents (ATV's) requiring hospital admission—A 13-year state major trauma centre experience Page 143 M. Burrell, J. Neilson, M. Mort
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Outcome of follow-up CT in blunt hepatic injury managed non-operatively Page 143 Timothy Cooper, Scott D’Amours, Bin Jalaludin, Minh Truong
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Safe placement of chest drains—An audit of knowledge among hospital medical practitioners Pages 143-144 D. Weber
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Non-operative management of high grade splenic injury: Review of factors leading to high spleen slavage rate in a level 1 trauma centre Page 144 Amit Rana, Kate Curtis, Mary Ling, Stuart Tan, Thomas Nau
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Outcomes of proximal femoral fractures in patients treated at Australian level-1 trauma centres Page 144 S. Roshan-Zamir, B. Gabbe, R. Gruen, S. Liew, M. Richardson
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Evaluation of the trauma high dependency unit Pages 144-145 L. Carter, L. Aitken, M. Schuetz
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Prevalence of Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) in multiple trauma: A seven-year restrospective analysis of prospective data at a level 1 metropolitan trauma centre Page 145 Stuart Tan, Amit Rana, Thomas Nau
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Health outcomes of delayed union and non-union of diaphyseal fractures Page 145 Wei-Han Tay, Martin Richardson, Russell Gruen, Richard de Steiger
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AIS 2005 vs. AIS 1998—A double-coding exercise to identify issues for trauma data Page 145 Cameron Palmer
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The role of CT scanning in blunt abdominal trauma Page 146 B. Bhagvan, M. Turai, A. Holden, A. Ng, I. Civil
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Management of penetrating thoraco-abdominal injury: The Auckland City Hospital experience Page 146 S. Bhagvan, A. Ng, I. Civil
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The cost effectiveness of helicopters for out-of-hospital transport Page 146 C.B. Taylor, M. Stevenson, S. Jan, P.M. Middleton, J. Myburgh
Case Reports
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A good outcome following cerebral fat embolism Pages 147-148 P. Haggis, B.J. Davis, T.S. Leary, J.A. Wimhurst
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Celebratory gunfire injury to a United States soldier sustained during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Pages 149-151 Stephen A. Parada, John G. DeVine, Edward D. Arrington
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Isolated vertical fracture of the anterior arch of the atlas—Case report Pages 152-154 S. Srinivas, N. Harshavardhana, E. Bayley, S.M.H. Mehdian
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Femoral vein injury in an intertrochanteric fracture: A case report Pages 155-157 Robert M. Choa, Suraj Shanmugam, Andrew Molloy, Badri Narayan