Top Research Papers on Trauma

Preface. Part 1: General Perspectives on Loss, Trauma, Coping, and Positive Impacts of Loss. From Vulnerability to Growth: Positive and Negative Effects of Stressful Life Events. The Other Side of Trauma: Towards a Psychology of Appreciation. Bereavement. Helping Victims of Loss and Trauma: A Social Psychological Perspective. Victim Thinking. The Ranking of Personal Grief: Death and Comparative Loss. Parallel Selves as Ending of the Grief Work. Rational Suicide. Part 2: Loss and Trauma Associated with Specific Populations. The Role of Perceived Control in Coping with the Losses Associated with...

Management priorities are stopping blood loss and reversing shock by restoring circulating blood volume, to prevent or reduce the risk of worsening Trauma-induced coagulopathy.

This article will highlight and discuss many of the issues and raise some uncomfortable arguments showing that improvement is needed, necessary and achievable.

In this clinical report, current, practical advice for rendering trauma-informed care across varied medical settings is summarized.

This literature review examines the various responses to trauma suffered by Indigenous peoples as a result of governmental policies geared towards assimilation. Both traumatic and resilient responses are demonstrated at the individual, family and community levels. Much of the research that has been done in the United States to develop theories around historical trauma and race-based traumatic stress may also be applied to Canada’s First Nations due to similar histories of oppression and colonization. Overall, the research finds that self government and a connection to culture and spirituality ...

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.

Health care professionals' use of mobile devices is transforming clinical practice and numerous medical software applications can now help with tasks ranging from information and time management to clinical decision-making at the point of care.

The presence of severe lung contusion, a higher ISS and AIS thoracic score and advanced age are independent risk factors that are directly related to a higher mortality rate.

This narrative review of available literature describes the physiology and role of calcium in trauma resuscitation and the coagulation cascade, supporting calcium's potential position as a fourth component in this proposed lethal diamond.

The American Academy of Pediatrics revises the 2009 policy statement on AHT to incorporate the growing body of knowledge on the topic and aims to provide pediatric practitioners with general guidance on a complex subject.

The World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) liver trauma management guidelines are presented to present to improve the management of liver trauma in trauma patients.

There is inconsistent evidence to support trauma informed interventions as an effective approach for psychological outcomes and future trauma informed intervention should be expanded in scope to address a wide range of trauma types such as racism and discrimination.

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 paper reviews the literature on the prevalence, risk factors, and effects of traumatic experiences on the mental health outcomes of minority youth in the USA and indicates disparities are resulting in increasing rates of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, substance use disorders, and suicide in minority youth.

While an association between admission ionized hypocalcemia and mortality, blood transfusion requirements, and coagulopathy has been identified, further prospective trials are essential to corroborating this association.

This commentary discusses four potential sources of trauma: high-stakes decision fatigue in healthcare professionals, traumatic grief, and bereavement in people who have lost loved ones, loss of roles and identity, and social divisions related to economic shutdown.

The accuracy of ISS, NISS and TRISS was higher than the APACHE II and SAPS II for the prediction of in-hospital mortality in geriatric trauma patients and the total number of geriatrics trauma is increasing as the population ages.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a decline in the number of acute trauma referrals, admissions, operations, and aerosolizing anesthetic procedures since implementing social distancing and lockdown measures during the “golden month.”

Suggestions for adapting trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy—an evidence-based trauma treatment for children and adolescents—to include racial socialization or the process of transmitting culture, attitudes, and values to help youth overcome stressors associated with ethnic minority status are proposed.

This policy statement summarizes what policy makers, legislators, and health care organizations need to consider in terms of infrastructure, resources, and financial support to facilitate the integration of Trauma-informed care principles into all pediatric points of care.

The results suggest that the characteristic symptoms of the disorder are not related to the memory itself but to its maladaptive control, and offer new insights into the development of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Demand for orthopaedic care remains, despite weekly reductions of 351 orthopointedic operations, 974 hospital admissions, and 3,432 clinic attendances, and PPE consumption did not exceed procurement, with net increases in PPE reserves.

Some of the barriers to discussing and investigating trauma in applied behavior analysis (ABA) are delineated and how the core commitments of trauma-informed care could be applied to behavior analysis are described.

How, in addition to direct trauma to the kidneys, the pathophysiological responses to traumatic injuries in distant organs, including immune responses, can result in kidney dysfunction is examined.

Current massive transfusion protocols should utilize between 1:1:1 and 1: 1:2 ratios of the 3 main products; plasma, platelets, and red blood cells, which are effective in decreasing mortality.

The COVID-19 pandemic's burden of disease correlated with a significant decrease in trauma admissions, with MVCs experiencing a larger decrease than non-MVCs.

It is important for obstetrician-gynecologists and other health care practitioners to recognize the prevalence and effect of trauma on patients and the health care team and incorporate trauma-informed approaches to delivery of care.

Existing literature highlights how birth trauma is strongly influenced by negative health care provider interactions and dysfunctional operation of the maternity care system which contributes to women's trauma.

A series of recommendations regarding hospital perioperative preparation for the COVID-19 pandemic were compiled to inform surgeons worldwide on how to provide emergency surgery and trauma care during enduring times.

Depression among individuals who have been racially and ethnically minoritized in the United States can be vastly different from that of non-Hispanic White Americans. For example, African American adults who have depression rate their symptoms as more severe, have a longer course of illness, and experience more depression-associated disability. The purpose of this review was to conceptualize how structural racism and cumulative trauma can be fundamental drivers of the intergenerational transmission of depression. The authors propose that understanding risk factors for depression, particularly ...

Racial trauma refers to experiences related to threats, prejudices, harm, shame, humiliation, and guilt associated with various types of racial discrimination, either for direct victims or witnesses. In North American, European, and colonial zeitgeist societies, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) experience racial microaggressions and interpersonal, institutional, and systemic racism on a repetitive, constant, inevitable, and cumulative basis. Although complex trauma differs from racial trauma in its origin, the consistency of racist victimization beyond childhood, and the internal...

Future research is urgently required to understand the interaction between core elements of a trauma-informed approach, teaching pedagogy and organizational factors that support the embedding, use and transferability of school-wide approaches.

Abstract Background Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has evolved considerably over the past two decades and has been gradually utilized in severe trauma. However, the indications for the use of ECMO in trauma remain uncertain and the clinical outcomes are different. We performed a systematic review to provide an overall estimate of the current performance of ECMO in the treatment of trauma patients. Materials and methods We searched PubMed and MEDLINE databases up to the end of December 2019 for studies on ECMO in trauma. The PRISMA statement was followed. Data on demographics of the...

The incidence of nerve injury in this national cohort was higher than previously reported and may improve practitioner awareness and inform public health interventions for injury prevention.

Despite the significant reduction in admissions during level 4 lockdown, hospitals should continue to provide full services until resource limitations are unavoidable, and immediate messaging is recommended to reduce rates of injury on the farm and at home, specifically falls prevention.

There was tentative evidence to suggest that interventions based, in part or whole, on a self-compassion model potentially reduce PTSD symptoms, and the precise mechanism of these protective effects is unknown.

The use of WB as an adjunct to CT is associated with improved outcomes in resuscitation of severely injured civilian trauma patients, and further studies are required to evaluate the role of adding WB to massive transfusion protocols.

Trigger warnings alert trauma survivors about potentially disturbing forthcoming content. However, empirical studies on trigger warnings suggest that they are functionally inert or cause small adverse side effects. We conducted a preregistered replication and extension of a previous experiment. Trauma survivors ( N = 451) were randomly assigned to either receive or not to receive trigger warnings before reading passages from world literature. We found no evidence that trigger warnings were helpful for trauma survivors, for participants who self-reported a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) d...

This work discusses how considering the possible effects of trauma and traumatic stress reactions provides an explanatory lens with new insights into people’s technology experiences and describes how adopting trauma-informed computing will lead to benefits for all users, not only those experiencing trauma.

The national lockdown has dramatically reduced orthopaedic trauma admissions and the incidence of fragility fractures requiring surgery has not changed, while DIY-related hand injuries have increased which has led to an increased in nerve injuries requiring intervention.