Trauma Care, Volume 2, Issue 3

Sixty-eight percent of persons infected with HIV live in Africa, but as few as 67% of those know their infection status. The emergency department (ED) might be a critical access point to HIV testing. This study sought to measure and compare HIV preva...

Distal radius fractures are among the most prevalent long-bone fractures in the body. Fracture healing assessment is based on clinical evaluation and radiological examinations. A lack of consensus exists regarding the radiographic criteria for fractu...

Resilience is having the necessary capacity and/or resources available to recover from an external or internal threat to one’s (personal assessment of) well-being at a particular moment. This scoping literature review examines current research...

Background: Injuries of the hip extensors are not uncommon, with those of the hamstrings being frequent among athletes. On the contrary, isolated injuries of the gluteus maximus muscle have been barely reported in the literature. Case Report: We pres...

Background: Evidence suggests that reductions in the incidence in trauma observed in some countries are related to interventions including legislation around road and vehicle safety measures, public behaviour change campaigns, and changes in trauma r...

Despite high injury-related morbidity, approaches for evaluating post-injury functional status after emergency care are poorly characterized in resource-limited settings. This study evaluated the feasibility of standardized disability assessments amo...

Background: Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) management begins in the pre-hospital setting, but clinicians are left with limited options for stabilisation during retrieval due to time and space constraints, as well as a lack of access to monitorin...

The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with mental health outcomes in the general population. This study assessed how state anxiety changed at different time points during the pandemic and how it was influenced by risk perception and trait emotional int...

This retrospective cohort study aimed to examine the characteristics, incidence, temporal trends, and seasonality of paediatric injury-related Emergency Department (ED) presentations at a large metropolitan paediatric hospital. It included children a...

Perinatal loss, the loss of a fetus or neonate between conception and 28 days after birth, is a worldwide phenomenon impacting millions of individuals annually. Whether due to miscarriage, stillbirth, life-limiting fetal diagnoses, or neonatal death,...