Alarmed by this state of affairs, prominent German trauma experts and psychologists signed a petition in December 2014, calling on their government to repeal its decriminalization law as a preventive measure against sexual violence and trauma.
Blunt trauma predominated (91.1%), while traffic accidents (53.1%) and high-energy falls (19.3%) were the most prominent injury mechanisms.
Co-morbidity, most notably depression [ 29] and generalised anxiety disorder [ 30, 35, 36] has been found to be more prominent in trauma-affected people than was originally assumed.
When the period of memory loss is well defined, prominent causes are trauma to the head, seizures, poisoning (e.g., alcohol), and brief episodes of inadequate blood supply to the brain.
Chest imaging plays a prominent role in blunt trauma patient evaluation, but indiscriminate imaging is expensive, may delay care, and unnecessarily exposes patients to potentially harmful ionizing radiation.
Reactive astrogliosis and glial scar formation are prominent features of CNS trauma and are increasingly implicated as playing important roles in determining long-term clinical outcome [ 41, 226].
This raises the question of whether this specific executive ability of resistance to PI may also contribute to the gradual decrease of intrusive imagery that generally arise in the immediate aftermath of trauma (a prominent example of PI in real life).
Results suggest peritraumatic processes and post-exposure factors may hold more prominent relations with immediate trauma-related distress as compared to pre-existing survivor characteristics.
This leads us to hypothesize that a metabolic switch may occur in non-hypoxic conditions where ischemia is absent but systemic inflammation is a prominent feature, such as sepsis, trauma or surgery.
Negative emotionality being the common denominator of the abovementioned three affective temperament types, our results indicate that negative emotionality becomes more prominent in the presence of childhood trauma.
