Word: trauma
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...abusive men--in stepping forward and asking for help. The secret is that both men and women appreciate the potential joys of married life; both men and women enjoy raising families and participating in community networks and both men and women would like to avoid the emotional and economic trauma of divorce...
...patient is wheeled into the "resus" (resuscitation) room, a fully mobilized team is usually ready and waiting. At a large urban medical center such as U.C. Davis, this may include a physician specializing in emergency medicine, five residents (including an anesthesiologist), three nurses, a respiratory therapist, X-ray and trauma technicians and several aides. While one doctor tries talking to the patient and checks for major injury, another starts drawing blood for tests. Other team members may be inserting catheters, stanching bleeding, administering blood or other fluids. Within five to 15 minutes, the patient...
...physician in the Sacramento area that he was recruited for an unpaid three-month stint caring for Cambodian refugees at a bush camp in eastern Thailand. Treating the injuries resulting from Cambodia's civil war reinforced his feelings about gun violence. "We saw 20 or 30 cases of battle trauma a day," he says...
...stones--they usually stop short of transfusionless surgery. Some medical fundamentalists view it as a false promise with its own risks, but even doctors who acknowledge its value caution that it is not the panacea some physicians think it is. Certain situations--liver transplants, for example, and instances of trauma--will always require transfusions. Says Dr. Steven Gould, a surgeon at the University of Illinois at Chicago who advocates reduced surgical use of donated blood: "Some operations require four to six units, and when you get to that level, it's hard to imagine not getting any blood. We will...
Morton may well have performed an even more remarkable service to modern medicine by establishing a link between metabolic disorders like glutaric aciduria and cerebral palsy. Most practitioners have long believed that oxygen deprivation or trauma at or before birth causes cerebral palsy, a motor disorder that reflects injury to the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia. But Dr. Karin Nelson at the National Institutes of Health, as well as colleagues at other research centers, has concluded that these causes do not explain most cases of the disease. "Holmes Morton has given us fresh insight into the source of cerebral palsy...