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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510017

A Rare Cause of Lower Airway Obstruction Due to Inhalation of Illicit Drug Packet

P Ruggiano, MC Ferraro, A Franci, N Stanflin, M Bonizzoli, A Peris and Filippo Socci

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: November 23, 2015

We report a case of a previously healthy 29-year-old male who experienced a severe traumatic brain injury with right temporal extracerebral intracranic hematoma and splenic injury after massive trauma sustained after a car accident. The patient was on his bike, he missed a red traffic light, and a car invested him and threw him 4 meters away. In the prehospital setting, the patient was found with GCS 3, with pupils equals, round and reactive to light with good hemodynamics. The medical emergency...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510016

Orbital Floor Reconstruction in Facial Asymmetry: A Clinical Case

Maglione Michele, Sossi Davide, Paolo Cecchini and Rizzo Roberto

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: November 21, 2015

Orbital floor blowout fractures may cause severe facial asymmetry, particularly when combined with panfacial fractures with wide bone defects. Surgical repair recommendations depend on multi-disciplinary clinical evaluation and digital imaging to assess the amount of soft tissues herniation, the infraorbital nerve and rectum inferioris muscle entrapments, the ocular bulbus dislocation, and the ocular diplopia. A second surgery intervention may be required particularly when the orbital floor frac...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510015

Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Ipsilateral Femoral Neck and Shaft Fractures: A Systematic Review of 1761 cases in 1758 Patients (I.1990-VI.2015)

Antonio Barquet, Joao Matheus Guimaraes, Enrique Barrios, Mariela Garau, Robert D Zura and William C Eward

Article Type: Review article | First Published: November 14, 2015

Objectives: Ipsilateral femoral neck and shaft fractures [IFNSF] are uncommon. The existing literature is characterized by a diversity of small reports with a lack of consensus. We performed a systematic review to examine the epidemiology and diagnosis of this injury. Methods: Nineteen databases were used to find articles published between January 1990 and June 2015 with no language restriction. Inclusion criteria were studies describing a minimum of five patients 16 years old or older with acu...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510014

Is That Only a Spinous Process Fracture? Report of a Case of a C6 Spinous Process Fracture with Accompanying Complex Ligamentous Injury Resulting in a Delayed Unilateral Facet Dislocation at the C6-7 Level

Gergely Bodon, Juergen Degreif, Harald Seifarth and Tobias Pitzen

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: November 10, 2015

A 76 years old patient suffered a motor vehicle accident and was brought to our hospital with neck pain and an occipital wound. On the initial polytrauma computed tomography (CT) an isolated spinous process fracture of C6 with hematoma among the posterior soft tissues was diagnosed as well as fracture of the right L1 transverse process. CT of the cervical spine showed no signs of segmental instability. Conservative treatment was introduced and the patient was provided with a soft cervical collar...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5777/1510013

The Impact of a Progressive Multidisciplinary Program for Trauma in the Elderly: Outcomes were impacted at the Extremes of Age

Nadir Adam, Ruby Skinner, Satbir Dhillon and Maureen Martin

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: November 5, 2015

The growing elderly population requires special consideration for high-risk medical and surgical care related to traumatic injury. The aim of our study is to evaluate the impact of multidisciplinary care program on outcomes in elderly trauma patients. In addition, the impact of the extremes of age on outcomes was evaluated in the elderly cohort....

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