Tag: multi system trauma
- Anatomic Considerations Of Kinematics ()
Injury to the Head (Brain and Maxillofacial Injury) Injury to the superficial regions of the brain is explained by these linear principles; however, injury to the deep structures of the brain, such as diffuse axonal injury (DAI), is more complicated. Several authors have tried to explain DAI as a result of shear strain between different […]
- Kinematics of Blast Injuries ()
Blast injuries are broadly categorized as primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, and quinary, based on a taxonomy of explosive injuries published by the Department of Defense in 2006. The trauma practitioner should be familiar with each of these patterns of injury and be able to predict associated injuries from each category. Primary blast injuries occur when the […]
- Kinematics Of Trauma ()
Kin·e·mat·ics (kn-mtks) n: The branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion without reference to the masses or forces involved in it. From Greek knma, knmat-, movement. As can be presumed from the derivation of the word kinematics, its essence revolves around motion. All injury is related to the interaction of the host and a moving object. That […]
- Multi-System Trauma ()
The problem is people with multiple injuries are really not in a position to explain what happened, even if it appears that mechanism of injury wasn’t that big of a deal. When patients have sustained multiple injuries from the same mechanism of injury, the index of suspicion for invisible life threatening injuries should be increased. […]