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.