Thoracic Injuries in Cats with Traumatic Fractures

SummaryThe medical records of 93 cats with traumatic fractures were examined to study the pattern of thoracic trauma and establish a possible relationship between specific patterns of skeletal trauma and the prevalence of thoracic wall and pulmonary injury. Radiographic evidence of thoracic trauma was identified in 38.7% of these cats. Cats with fractures cranial to T13 were significantly more likely to sustain thoracic trauma (58%) compared to those suffering a fracture caudal to LI (25%). Cats involved in motor vehicle accident were more likely to have radiographic evidence of thoracic trauma (52%) compared to those injured by other means (22%). Forty percent of cats with radio-graphic evidence of thoracic injury did not show any clinical sign.In a retrospective survey of 93 cats admitted for evaluation of traumatic fractures, 36 cats (38.7%) had radiographic evidence of thoracic trauma. The most common thoracic injuries were lung contusion (66.6%) and pneumothorax (36%). Forty percent of the cats, with radiographic abnormalities, did not show clinical signs suggestive of thoracic injury.

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Posttraumatic Transdiaphragmatic Intercostal Hernia: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature

International Surgery ◽

10.9738/intsurg-d-13-00272.1 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 100 (3) ◽

pp. 444-449 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Vasileios Kalles ◽

Maria Dasiou ◽

Georgia Doga ◽

Ioannis Papapanagiotou ◽

Evangelos A Konstantinou ◽

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Keyword(s):

Surgical Repair ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

Motor Vehicle Accident ◽

Thoracic Wall ◽

Hernia Sac ◽

Vehicle Accident ◽

Intercostal Hernia ◽

Area 6 ◽

The Right ◽

Transdiaphragmatic Intercostal Hernia

Intercostal hernias are rare, and usually occur following injuries of the thoracic wall. The scope of this report is to present a case of a 53-year-old obese patient that developed a transdiaphragmatic intercostal hernia. The patient presented with a palpable, sizeable, reducible mass in the right lateral thoracic wall, with evident bowel sounds in the area, 6 months after a motor-vehicle accident. On computed tomography (CT), the hernia sac contained part of the liver and part of the ascending colon. A surgical repair of the defect was performed, using a prosthetic patch. The patient's postoperative course was uneventful and she remains recurrence free at 12 months after surgery. Intercostal hernias should be suspected following high-impact injuries of the thoracic wall, and CT scans will facilitate the diagnosis of intercostal hernia. We consider the surgical repair of the defect, with placement of a prosthetic mesh, as the treatment of choice to ensure a favorable outcome.

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Profile of Abdominal Trauma Patient Underwent Surgery in Emergency Operating Room of Sanglah General Hospital from January until December 2015

JBN (Jurnal Bedah Nasional) ◽

10.24843/jbn.2018.v02.i01.p01 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Reza Halim ◽

Made Agus Dwianthara Sueta

Keyword(s):

General Hospital ◽

Operating Room ◽

Abdominal Trauma ◽

Medical Records ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

Motor Vehicle Accident ◽

Trauma Patients ◽

Vehicle Accident ◽

Liver Repair ◽

Emergency Operating

Objective: to investigate the characteristics of patients, presentation of the abdominal organ that involved, and clinical data associated with this event. Methods: this is a descriptive study with retrospective design. Total samples were all patients with abdominal trauma who underwent surgery on the emergency operating theatre of Sanglah General Hospital between January and December 2015. Baseline data of patients were obtained from the medical records. Results: within the study period, a total of 104 patients with abdominal trauma who underwent surgery in the emergency operating room of Sanglah General Hospital were identified. Man comprised 87.5% of the patients and mostly were 17-45 years old (75%). The motor vehicle accident occurred majority on the weekend (65%). Liver and spleen were the most affected organ (55%). Splenectomy (35%) and liver repair surgery (33%) were the most often performed procedures. Conclusion: Abdominal trauma caused by motor vehicle accident occurred mostly on the weekend. Two most affected organs in abdominal trauma were liver and spleen. Splenectomy and liver repair surgery were the procedures performed for these trauma patients.

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Serious Head Injury in Infants: Accident or Abuse?

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.75.2.340 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 75 (2) ◽

pp. 340-342 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

M. Elaine Billmire ◽

Patricia A. Myers

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Head Injury ◽

Medical Records ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

Motor Vehicle Accident ◽

Head Injuries ◽

Skull Fracture ◽

Intracranial Injury ◽

Vehicle Accident ◽

History Of

The medical records and computed tomography (CT) scans of all children less than 1 year of age admitted to the hospital with head injury over a 2-year period were reviewed. Sixty-four percent of all head injuries, excluding uncomplicated skull fracture, and 95% of serious intracranial injuries were the result of child abuse. The occurrence of intracranial injury in infants, in the absence of a history of significant accidental trauma, such as a motor vehicle accident, constitutes grounds for an official child abuse investigation.

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Open label trial of escitalopram in motor vehicle accident survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e516222012-037 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

R. Coronas ◽

M.G. del Alamo ◽

H.G. Arnau ◽

E.I. Soto ◽

D. Suarez

Keyword(s):

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Stress Disorder ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

Motor Vehicle Accident ◽

Open Label ◽

Vehicle Accident ◽

Open Label Trial

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Virtual reality and computer games in the treatment of driving phobia induced by a motor vehicle accident

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e705482011-064 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

David Walshe ◽

Elizabeth Lewis ◽

Kathleen O'Sullivan ◽

Brenda K. Wiederhold ◽

Sun I. Kim

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Computer Games ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

Motor Vehicle Accident ◽

Vehicle Accident

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Expectations of lawyers with regard to neuropsychological evaluations in motor vehicle accident claims.

Professional Psychology Research and Practice ◽

10.1037/pro0000311 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 51 (6) ◽

pp. 642-648

Author(s):

Henk Johan Swanepoel ◽

Esmé Van Rensburg

Keyword(s):

Motor Vehicle ◽

Motor Vehicle Accident ◽

Vehicle Accident ◽

Neuropsychological Evaluations

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Machine Learning of Motor Vehicle Accident Categories from Narrative Data

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1634680 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 35 (04/05) ◽

pp. 309-316 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

M. R. Lehto ◽

G. S. Sorock

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Bayesian Model ◽

Keyword Search ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

Motor Vehicle Accident ◽

Computer Search ◽

Vehicle Accident ◽

Learning Technique ◽

Expert Ratings ◽

Keyword Searches

Abstract:Bayesian inferencing as a machine learning technique was evaluated for identifying pre-crash activity and crash type from accident narratives describing 3,686 motor vehicle crashes. It was hypothesized that a Bayesian model could learn from a computer search for 63 keywords related to accident categories. Learning was described in terms of the ability to accurately classify previously unclassifiable narratives not containing the original keywords. When narratives contained keywords, the results obtained using both the Bayesian model and keyword search corresponded closely to expert ratings (P(detection)≥0.9, and P(false positive)≤0.05). For narratives not containing keywords, when the threshold used by the Bayesian model was varied between p>0.5 and p>0.9, the overall probability of detecting a category assigned by the expert varied between 67% and 12%. False positives correspondingly varied between 32% and 3%. These latter results demonstrated that the Bayesian system learned from the results of the keyword searches.

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Aspirated teeth - rigid or flexible bronchoscopy

Journal of Clinical Case reports and reviews ◽

10.36879/jccrr.19.000132 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-2

Keyword(s):

Clinical Practice ◽

Foreign Bodies ◽

Motor Vehicle ◽

Motor Vehicle Accident ◽

Flexible Bronchoscopy ◽

Vehicle Accident

Tracheobronchial foreign bodies are a common problem in clinical practice. We present the case of a patient with three aspirated teeth following a motor vehicle accident.

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