Background: Prolonged courses of broad-spectrum antibiotics are often cited as the
standard of care for prevention of infective complications of open fractures. The origins of …

Traffic noise is a major cause of noise pollution, and impacts of noise pollution on humans
have been studied extensively. Previous studies have helped in the development of traffic …

Background: Normal vital signs are typically associated with improved outcomes in trauma
patients. Whether this association is true for geriatric patients is unclear. Methods: A Level 1 …

Background: Acute appendicitis is the most common abdominal surgical emergency in the
United States, with a lifetime risk of 7%–8%. The treatment paradigm for complicated …

Background: Because the quality of information on the Internet is of dubious worth, many
patients seek out reliable expert sources. As per the American Medical Association (AMA) …

Importance Severe renal injuries after blunt trauma cause diagnostic and therapeutic
challenges for the treating clinicians. The need for an operative vs a nonoperative approach …

Background: Ethnic minorities and low income families tend to be in poorer health and have
worse outcomes for a spectrum of diseases. Health care provider bias has been reported to …

BACKGROUND Patients' trauma burdens are a combination of anatomic damage,
physiologic derangement, and the resultant depletion of reserve. Typically, Injury Severity …

BACKGROUND Since its introduction by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the
ventilator bundle (VB) has been credited with a reduction in ventilator-associated …

Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTI) have been recognized for millennia and continue to
impose considerable burden on both patient and society in terms of morbidity, death, and …