Top Research Papers on Trauma

ABSTRACT This study is particularly relevant because of COVID, and the traumatic experience we are living through together in the present. This article is, however, not, or not only, about the time of COVID: through current events we examine the psychological effects of mass trauma on the individual, the complex relationship of the me (the subject) and the we (the group, the Intersubjective), and the genesis of reality. We focus on how the outer events in the here-and-now become an internal, subjective reality, and what role is played by the group, the intersubjective community, in the genesis...

To become trauma-informed requires opportunities to reflect on what trauma means and consideration of the challenges the concept poses to diagnostically driven systems.

The June 2023 Trauma Roundup360 looks at: Aspirin or low-molecular-weight heparin for thromboprophylaxis?; Lateral plating or retrograde nailing for distal femur fractures?; Sciatic nerve palsy after acetabular fixation: what about patient position?; How reliable is the new OTA/AO classification for trochanteric hip fractures?; Young hip fractures: is a medial buttress the answer?; When is the best time to ‘flap’ an open fracture?; The mortality burden of nonoperatively managed hip fractures.

How a traumainformed ethics consultant could address this request in a way that acknowledges how ethics involvement in Maurice’s care could invite opportunities to provide TIC and TIEC to the patient as well as the medical team is explored.

ABSTRACT:Over the past century the concept of trauma has substantially broadened its meanings in academic and public discourse. We document four directions in which this semantic expansion has occurred at different times: from somatic to psychic, extraordinary to ordinary, direct to indirect, and individual to collective. We analyze these expansions as instances of "concept creep," the progressive inflation of harm-related concepts, and present evidence for the rising cultural salience and semantic enlargement of trauma in recent decades. Expansive concepts of trauma may have mixed blessings f...

When religion is the site of abuse and trauma, it can deeply impact a person's ability to relate to God and engage in spiritual practice. As such, religious trauma is ripe for philosophical exploration. Section 1 of this Element provides a brief history of the concept of psychological trauma, contemporary accounts of its neurobiological basis, and its impact on human agency. Section 2 sketches a model of religious trauma through the first-person narratives of survivors and emerging psychological data. Section 3 explores the social epistemology of religious trauma, focusing on how failures of k...

ABSTRACT Over the last 25 years, a number of concepts that broadly centre on human suffering, conflict, and death have developed and proliferated in heritage studies. As a ‘trauma and truth telling’ discourse is embraced globally, there is a marked increase in the recognition of heritage connected to trauma, suffering and tragedy. Yet, despite the breadth and depth of research in this space, psychological trauma has been largely unexamined in the field of heritage studies. Therefore in this interdisciplinary paper, we ask: what is trauma? What is the relationship between trauma and heritage? A...

This narrative review describes the main factors to consider in the co-existing condition of trauma and hypothermia from a prehospital and emergency medical perspective.

Study findings replicate and extend prior DTD field trial study results, showing that, although PTSD and DTD share traumatic antecedents, DTD is uniquely associated with traumatic emotional abuse and caregiver separation.

The different trends in defining trauma and their limitations are discussed considering the recent empirical data that provided evidence for the limited predictive validity of the current posttraumatic stress disorder model and when confronting serious real-life events such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

This article addresses the experience of precarity and vulnerability in racialized gender-based violence from a structural perspective. Informed by Indigenous social theory and anticolonial approaches to intergenerational trauma that link settler colonial violence to the modalities of stress-inducing social, institutional, and cultural violences in marginalized women’s lives, the article argues that philosophical failures to understand trauma as a functional, organizational tool of settler colonial violence amplify the impact of traumatic experience on specific populations. It is trauma by d...

On the morning of Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, the world was traumatized and we were forever changed. Thanks to modern news media, millions of people were witness to indelible images of terrorist attacks that instantly overwhelmed our ordinary capacity for coping. We experienced a terrible reality of violent death, injury and destruction at the hands of others that left us with feelings of raw horror, fear and helplessness. This is a definition of trauma. Twenty years ago, it was thought that traumatic events were “outside the range of usual human experience,” but we have sadly learned that ...

A scoping review aimed to catalog all trauma measures (trauma exposure and its subjective responses) that have been published in the peer-reviewed literature, developed for use with adult populations, finding 363 unique trauma measures.

The aim of this paper is to briefly present the current knowledge on the definition of relational trauma, place in classifications, prevalence, consequences, and applied therapeutic methods. Reports from many countries indicate that in the relationship with adults, usually parents, on whom the child is dependent for many years, various forms of abuse may occur, related not only to violence, but also to emotional, physical, and intellectual neglect. Behind them, the unregistered area of aversive experiences of children who enter adulthood with the experience of relational trauma is hidden. Thes...

The purpose of this study was to test if perceived social support and self-compassion will interact to reduce the magnitude of the bivariate relationship (buffering effect) between cumulative trauma and trauma symptoms after controlling for gender and age among college students. As part of a broader research project conducted between 2018 and 2019, we collected data via online surveys from a sample of 551 undergraduate students at a public university in the southern region of the US. After data cleaning, the study included 538 participants (representing 97.6% of the original dataset), ensuring...

It is demonstrated that a conceptual understanding of the consequences of childhood bullying needs to be framed within a developmental perspective, and that complex post-traumatic stress disorder and developmental trauma disorder capture the complexity of the symptoms associated with bullying victimization better than PTSD.

Resuscitative and trauma care of the mother is the utmost priority Study Type Algorithm, expert opinion, consensus LEVEL of EVIDENCE Diagnostic Tests/Criteria; Level III.

This chapter discusses the management of major trauma and looks at the advanced trauma life support (ATLS) system, which considers thoracic injuries, abdominal trauma, vascular injuries, and head injuries.

It is clear from the current literature that hepatic TAE is an effective and safer option to operative management in treating arterial hemorrhage in the setting of traumatic hepatic injury.

Among adults with major trauma and suspected trauma-induced coagulopathy who were being treated in advanced trauma systems, prehospital administration of tranexamic acid followed by an infusion over 8 hours did not result in a greater number of patients surviving with a favorable functional outcome at 6 months than placebo.

This study found that TREC nurse deployment improved resuscitation intervention timeliness during the first 2 hr (early phase) of trauma activations.

The first question addressed in this study is how to resume everyday life in a synagogue community following the cataclysm of the Shoah and how different aspects of this relaunch can be interpreted as an attempt to process the trauma of the Holocaust, either on an individual or group level. The second part of the paper revolves around the symptoms of “prolonged social trauma” in the dynamics of the changed community during the 1970s and 1980s and those of religious life in the field under study. In this case, the area in question represents a narrow locality, the Páva Street Synagogue and its ...

It is emphasized that the lack of a mechanistic understanding of chronic TBI has posed a challenge when interpreting the results of molecular imaging biomarkers, and advocates for better target identification, improved analysis techniques such as machine learning or artificial intelligence, and novel tracer development.

It is difficult to demonstrate a difference in outcomes for children treated at PTCs vs. ATCs, but P TCs do offer a multidisciplinary, nuanced approach to pediatric trauma care, which may result in long term benefits and offer opportunities for regional collaboration.

OBJECTIVE The current research aims to explore the nature of trauma experienced by female combatants. METHOD Data were collected from two focus groups and a series of personal interviews with 100 women military veterans who had served in the Israel Defense Forces as combat or combat-support soldiers. RESULTS Interviews with these veterans revealed a variety of narratives about their war experiences, including an intertwining of the emotional and the physical. The ongoing danger and traumatic events that the combatants and combat-support soldiers faced on a daily basis were woven into their...

The CASS is excellent for predicting laparotomy, IHM, and LS in patients with abdominal trauma, and the NISS is more appropriate than the ISS for predicting Laparotomy and IHM.

The RTS showed an inverse relationship with the length of hospital stay as an indicator of injury severity and was evaluated using the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).

The data suggest that cryoprecipitate attenuates the endotheliopathy of trauma in HS/T similar to FFP, andGene analysis of lung tissue from cryopRecipitate- and FFP-treated mice demonstrates decreased inflammatory gene expression, in particular, IL-1β and NLRP3, compared with LR- treated mice.

Sexual harassment situations, which are common not just in metropolitan regions but also in rural ones, can no longer be viewed as ordinary incidents. This is one of the reasons why victims may experience trauma that may affect their well-being, recovery from the trauma is required. Which has as its goal to examine the trauma recovery method for sexual harassment victims within the organization. In order to broadly characterize the research's findings, descriptive qualitative research methodologies were used in this study, along with data gathering strategies such literature reviews, interview...

In this article I first provide an overview of the ways in which trauma impacts people’s understandings and experiences of God, then survey two works of “trauma-informed theology” to demonstrate how these approaches to theology can lead to diminished views of God and turn theology into anthropology, and, finally, propose an approach to trauma and theology that maintains a theocentric theological method that affirms the subjective experiences of traumatized individuals while not advancing diminished understandings of God. It is the triune God revealed in Scripture that wipes away the tears of...

Because trauma-related depression is associated with high risk of suicide and is chronic with a propensity to relapse, it is necessary to explore its pathogenesis and therapeutic strategy.

Existing literature provides a compelling link between hypocalcemia and worse trauma‐induced coagulopathy and increased mortality after injury.

A summary of locoregional and national practices, including relevant updates in the triage of geriatric trauma in the United States at multiple stages in the care of the older patient, evaluating existing literature and guidelines is provided.

A group of consensus recommendations to help standardize VTE prophylaxis strategies for adult trauma patients (age ≥15 years) across all trauma centers are developed and promoted to promote evidence-based, prompt VTE ProPhylaxis in common, high-risk traumatic injuries.

The epidemiology, etiology, assessment, diagnosis, and management of trauma in pregnancy is detailed.

An effective tri-phasic model for trauma treatment is constructed as guiding principle, enabling a phased delivery that is fitted to the survivor’s relational and processing style.

Comparisons between a sample of individuals who have experienced reproductive trauma to a normative sample utilizing the Posttraumatic Checklist for the DSM-V validate the use of the term reproductive trauma, and present indications for clinical treatment and diagnosis for psychologists and health professionals working with this population.

Providers and staff at four Wisconsin trauma centers called for trauma-specific opioid prescribing guidelines in the setting of trauma and acute care, and the ubiquitous prescription of opioids and challenges in long-term pain management in these settings necessitate additional community-integrated research.

Key nontechnical skills, especially Communication and Interaction, and Assessment and Decision Making, play vital roles in prehospital multicasualty trauma care and underscore the importance of training in these skills to enhance trauma care in such scenarios, offering valuable insights for medical team preparation.

This review explores sex dimorphisms in enzymatic hemostasis, fibrinogen, platelets, and fibrinolysis, with implications for resuscitation of patients with TIC.

Resolving trauma may contribute to mental health and parenting in mother with histories of childhood maltreatment. The concept of trauma-specific reflective functioning (T-RF) was developed to assess the complexity of thought processes regarding trauma. The study aimed to validate the T-RF scale applied to the Trauma Meaning-Making Interview by examining its psychometric properties, associations with measures of trauma-processing strategies, maternal reflective functioning and mental health (depression and post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD]), as well as evaluating whether T-RF offered a uni...

This study concentrates on the Anglophonic literature produced in the region of Jammu and Kashmir. It explores its narratives through the lens of trauma theory, pertaining to the region’s history of forced conflict. After the Second World War, the relevance of trauma in literary studies has increased and texts have been characterized by an  archeology of traumatic consciousness. Also, the narratives act as vehicles for transmitting stories of suppressed and wounded consciousness. This research focuses upon Mirza Waheed’s (2011) novel The  Collaborator and Basharat Peer’s (2010) memoir Curfewed...

Efforts to improve trauma quality should include engagement of nontrauma hospitals to reduce variation in outcomes of injured patients treated at those facilities, as wide variation in trauma outcomes exists across nontraum hospitals.

Cats suffering from penetrating trauma had the best outcome (survival to discharge) among trauma types (blunt, penetrating, both) in cats, and cats that sustained a component of blunt trauma had a lower survival rate, higher ATT scores, and higher mGCS overall.

It is suggested that integrating existing major trauma centres with smaller local hospitals within a region into an inclusive, interconnected region-based trauma system is the cheapest and most efficient way to improve Nigeria's trauma care and significantly reduce trauma mortality rates.

This chapter includes photos of trauma cases of the anterior segment, corneal and conjunctival foreign bodies, sequelae of blunt and penetrating trauma, chemical injuries, as well as a case of posttraumatic iris cyst.

In earlier days, the diagnosis of urinary bladder and urethra injury was often missed or delayed due to the lack of proper knowledge and adequate medical instruments.

Many studies have reported negative outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic on people's mental health, and high prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms have been described in healthcare workers, individuals with CO VID-19, and in the general population.

Identification of patients whose conditions preclude the benefit of transfer due to futility and development of appropriate support for referral will significantly improve appropriate allocation of health care resources.

The findings suggest that trauma-related blame attributions are more nuanced than is typically measured and that factors such as the degree of distress caused by a particular blame attribution, or how believable the thought is to the survivor, might be more clinically meaningful than the specific content of the belief.