Articles from the 4th World Trauma Congress
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open (TSACO) served as the official publication of the 4th World Trauma Congress (WTC), held in San Diego during September 2018. Below are articles from presentations at the WTC, selected by President of the World Coalition for Trauma Care Raul Coimbra, MD, PhD, and TSACO Editor-in-Chief Timothy Fabian, MD.
Spectrum of injuries resulting from gunshot wounds in car hijacking: a South African experience (30 December, 2018)
Interpersonal violence in peacetime Malawi (27 December, 2018)
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Applying the five-pillar matrix to the decade of action for road safety in Qatar: identifying gaps and priorities (19 December, 2018)
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Incidence of acute respiratory distress syndrome and associated mortality in a polytrauma population (19 December, 2018)
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Determinants of emergency department disposition of patients with traumatic brain injury in Uganda: results from a registry (19 December, 2018)
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Mortality, hospital admission, and healthcare cost due to injury from venomous and non-venomous animal encounters in the USA: 5-year analysis of the National Emergency Department Sample (11 December, 2018)
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Feasibility of telephone-administered interviews to evaluate long-term outcomes of trauma patients in urban Ethiopia (30 November, 2018)
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Isolated hip fracture in the elderly and time to surgery: is there an outcome difference? (23 November, 2018)
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Analyses of clinical outcomes after severe pelvic fractures: an international study (21 November, 2018)
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Comparison of trauma outcomes between Japan and the USA using national trauma registries (5 November, 2018)
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