Objective To assemble an international panel of experts to develop consensus recommendations
on selected important issues on the use of ultrasonography (US) in trauma care. …

… La sensibilité, la spécificité, la valeur prédictive positive, la valeur prédictive négative et l’exactitude
de l’examen abdominal clinique permettant d’identifier une PIA élevée se sont établies à 40 …

Background: Studies of trauma deaths have had a tremendous impact on the quality of
contemporary trauma care. We studied causes of trauma death at a Level I Canadian trauma …

Background Open pelvic fractures represent one of the most devastating injuries in
orthopedic trauma. The purpose of this study was to document the injury characteristics, …

Background The Injury Severity Score (ISS) does not take into account multiple injuries in
the same body region, whereas a New ISS (NISS) may provide a more accurate measure of …

Although there is an interest in emergent abdominal sonography (EAS), the clinical utilization
of EAS in North America is minimal. The purpose of this study was to develop a new …

Background: Trauma patients often require multiple imaging tests, including computed
tomography (CT) scans. CT scanning, however, is associated with high-radiation doses. The …

Objective Trauma victims with hypotension require a rapid and reliable localization of bleeding
and expedient surgical triage. Our hypothesis is that emergent abdominal sonography (…

Background Although the routine use of FAST (focused assessment with sonography for
trauma) in the evaluation of trauma victims is increasing, to our knowledge, a prospective …

Background: Traumatic abdominal wall hernias (TAWHs) are uncommon, and it remains
controversial whether such patients require urgent laparotomy. As such, this study was …