A $1.6 million settlement was reached for a Flemington woman who sustained a traumatic brain injury in a car crash with a Montgomery Township police officer.

Day 1 of the Wisconsin EMS Association conference featured sessions on sepsis, electrolyte imbalances, facial trauma and traumatic amputations ...

Thoracostomies, and subsequent placements of chest tubes (CTs), are a standard procedure in several domains of medicine. In emergency medicine, thoracostomies are indicated to release a relevant ...

2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Glasgow Coma Scale, an assessment score that was developed initially for traumatic brain injury but that is now used widely in clinical ...

This review evaluates the accuracy of prehospital ultrasound for the diagnoses of pneumothorax, haemothorax and pulmonary contusions in patients with trauma. Methods A systematic review and ...

Mr Livelsberger's ex-girlfriend told the Washington Post that he had once told her he suffered a traumatic brain injury during his overseas deployment. Alicia Arritt, a 39-year-old nurse who dated ...

At the trauma center, a chest X-ray confirmed the presence of a right sided pneumothorax that was likely a tension pneumothorax earlier. The patient suffered significant blood loss from a ...

The aim of the article is to present species-specific differences in the sonographic diagnosis of pneumothorax (PTX) in pet rats. Methods: In total, 158 client-owned pet rats were examined during the ...

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD The pleura is a two-layered membrane that covers the lung. Between the layers is a small amount of lubricating fluid, known as pleural fluid, which helps cushion ...