Background: Studies of trauma deaths have had a tremendous impact on the quality of
contemporary trauma care. We studied causes of trauma death at a Level I Canadian trauma …

Background: Trauma patients often require multiple imaging tests, including computed
tomography (CT) scans. CT scanning, however, is associated with high-radiation doses. The …

Background: To determine, using a civilian model of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), the
added value of biomarker sampling upon prognostication of outcome at 1 week and 6 weeks …

Background: Low Glasgow Coma Scale score (GCS) and pupillary status predict poor
outcomes in head injury (HI) patients. We compared the mortality of GCS 3 patients having …

Background: Coagulopathic bleeding is a leading cause of in-hospital death after injury. A
recently proposed transfusion strategy calls for early and aggressive frozen plasma …

Background: Head injuries have been associated with subsequent suicide among military
personnel, but outcomes after a concussion in the community are uncertain. We assessed the …

BACKGROUND: Tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) is a system of prehospital trauma
care designed for the combat environment. Although widely adopted, very few studies have …

BACKGROUND: This study evaluated how implementation of an acute care emergency
surgery service (ACCESS) affected key determinants of emergency department (ED) length of …

Background Trauma care benefits from the use of imaging technologies. Trauma patients and
trauma team members are exposed to radiation during the continuum of care. Knowledge …

Background Military members, injured in Afghanistan or Iraq, have returned home with multi-drug
resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections. The source of these infections is unknown…