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Medical students invent foam tool to treat battlefield wounds
Polyurethane foam, long used in products such as bedding, furniture and insulation to make people more comfortable, someday also may save lives.
Sep 8, 2014
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Sleep disturbance following acute fractures not related to injury
Sleep disturbance is an extremely common complaint following orthopaedic trauma. In a new study presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), researchers assessed the functional ...
Mar 14, 2014
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Postoperative 'doctor shopping' linked to higher narcotic use among orthopaedic patients
"Doctor shopping," the growing practice of obtaining narcotic prescriptions from multiple providers, has led to measurable increases in drug use among postoperative orthopaedic trauma patients, according to a new study presented ...
Mar 11, 2014
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Aggressive management of gunshot wounds to brain significantly increases survival
(Medical Xpress)—About nine out of 10 people with gunshot wounds to the brain will die. University of Arizona trauma surgeons, using a new aggressive resuscitation protocol for patients with gunshot head injuries, have ...
Jan 24, 2014
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Domestic violence more common among orthopedic trauma patients than surgeons think
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 30 percent of women in North and South America experience intimate partner violence during their lifetimes. In North America, domestic violence also is the most common ...
Nov 11, 2013
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Horrific war injuries spawn radical plastic surgery techniques
Reconstructing Faces: The Art and Wartime Surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe and Mowlem tells the story of the four pioneering surgeons involved in ground-breaking work in facial reconstruction during the two world wars.
Aug 8, 2013
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Medical research
Thought-controlled robotic arm 'makes a big negative a whole lot better'
Dr. Albert Chi, a UA College of Medicine graduate, helped develop a robotic arm and hand that a person can control with his or her thoughts.
Jul 8, 2013
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Transplant patient outcomes after trauma better than expected
In the largest study of its kind, physicians from the Department of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) have ...
Jun 10, 2013
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Two new papers on dabigatran etexilate (Pradaxa) and intracranial hemorrhage
The Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group is pleased to announce publication of two new studies on dabigatran etexilate (Pradaxa®) and intracranial hemorrhage: one in the Journal of Neurosurgery and the other in Neurosurgical ...
May 1, 2013
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War medicine now is helping Boston bomb victims
The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances ...
Apr 18, 2013
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