Trauma

The Liver trauma page has been updated with some additional information about the management of retrohepatic caval injuries and the role of embolization following liver trauma.

The Prevention of secondary brain injury page has been updated with additional information about the role of decompressive craniectomy following TBI.

The Disorders of clotting page has again been updated with additional information regarding trauma induced coagulopathy.

The Management of fractures & dislocations page has been updated including additional information regarding the management of open fractures.

[avatar user=”robjdunn” size=”original” align=”left” /] The Chest wall injuries page has been updated with additional information regarding the imaging of rib fractures and role of chest wall stabilisation surgery following chest trauma.

The Management of the trauma patient page has been updated with additional information about damage control orthopaedics and the surgical priority of aortic injury repair.

[avatar user=”robjdunn” size=”original” align=”left” /] The Management of the trauma patient page has been updated with additional information about the surgical priorities in trauma.

[avatar user=”robjdunn” size=”original” align=”left” /] The Assessment of pelvic fractures and Management of pelvic trauma pages have been updated, including additional information regarding the role of angiographic embolisation in the bleeding patient.

Details of Pilon, LeFort and Tillaux – Chaput fractures around the ankle, as well as some other things about ankle fractures, have been added to the Ankle and foot injuries page.

The Ankle and foot injuries page has been updated with additional information about Gissane’s angle and the classification of calcaneal fractures.

The Ankle and foot injuries page has been updated with additional information about Lisfanc injuries to the foot.

[avatar user=”robjdunn” size=”original” align=”left” /] The Prehospital interventions page has been updated with the latest out of hospital traumatic paediatric cardiac arrest guidelines developed by the American College of Emergency Physicians, National Association of EMS Physicians, American College of Surgeons, and American Academy of Pediatrics.

[avatar user=”robjdunn” size=”original” align=”left” /] The Introduction to head trauma page has been updated with additional information about patients with head trauma at risk of deterioration, including indications for repeat CT head scanning.

The Missile injuries page has been updated with a small segment on the management of missile wounds.

The Management of the trauma patient page has been updated with a segment on damage control laparotomy.

The segment on Digital nerve injuries has been moved to the Hand injuries page from the Tendon sheath and pressure gun injuries page. Really not sure what it was doing there in the first place!