Patients admitted for respiratory or trauma indications are more likely to have prolonged stay.
RSI for medical (non-trauma) indications and cases with no monitor printout record of haemodynamic data were excluded.
Subgroups analyses will be performed based on major (midline laparotomy) versus minor surgical procedures (eg, appendicectomy through non-midline, hernia repair through groin incision), and trauma versus non-trauma indications.
This section also includes special issues in initial wound management, chemical burns, electrical burns, comanagement of burns and major trauma, and indications for transfer to a burn facility.
A history of previous cervical trauma is an indication to obtain cervical spine radiographs.
We included patients >18 years of age with multiple trauma and an indication for kinetic therapy (Rotorest®; KCI GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany), with visible lung contusion in the initial CT scan and/or Abbreviated Injury Scale thorax >3.
9 A diagnosis of ABM was considered when bacteria were detected on CSF culture, gram stain or bacterial antigen testing or when there was a CSF leucocyte count of at least 10/μl and the blood: CSF glucose ratio was <0.67. 10 Children with no history of trauma and no indication of CM, ABM or bacteraemia were considered to have an encephalopathy of undetermined cause.
Because two trauma manuals stated indications as being abdominal trauma or circulatory instability, the total number of FAST indications (n = 23) was higher than the number of guidelines mentioning FAST (n = 21).
In penetrating and blunt trauma, certain clinical indications require emergent surgical intervention.
Clinically, the two types of subarachnoid hemorrhage may be difficult to distiguish in the absence of clear indication of trauma.
