Medicine & Health

Traumatic Injury

Published November 29, 2018 Curated Collections

Traumatic injury has long been recognized as a neglected disease of extremely high burden. With this Special Issue, PLOS Medicine and guest editors Professor Karim Brohi and Dr Martin Schreiber highlight crucial research in this area. Studies in the collection focus on a broad range of topics – from epidemiologic and public health research into the risk factors for and causes of traumatic events that may help prevent avoidable injury, to new genetic methods giving insight into the body’s response to trauma.

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Karim Brohi Prof. Karim Brohi
December 21, 2016 Guest Editor, PLOS Medicine Traumatic Injury
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Martin Schreiber Dr. Martin Schreiber
December 21, 2016 Guest Editor, PLOS Medicine Traumatic Injury

PLOS Medicine Special Issue

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PLOS Medicine The new survivors and a new era for trauma research
July 25, 2017 Karim Brohi, Martin Schreiber
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PLOS Medicine Temporal profile of intracranial pressure and cerebrovascular reactivity in severe traumatic brain injury and association with fatal outcome: An observational study
July 25, 2017 Hadie Adams, Joseph Donnelly, Marek Czosnyka, Angelos G. Kolias, Adel Helmy, David K. Menon, Peter Smielewski, Peter J. Hutchinson
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PLOS Medicine Ultrasound non-invasive measurement of intracranial pressure in neurointensive care: A prospective observational study
July 25, 2017 Chiara Robba, Danilo Cardim, Tamara Tajsic, Justine Pietersen, Michael Bulman, Joseph Donnelly, Andrea Lavinio, Arun Gupta, David K. Menon, Peter J. A. Hutchinson, Marek Czosnyka
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PLOS Medicine Cerebrovascular pressure reactivity monitoring using wavelet analysis in traumatic brain injury patients: A retrospective study
July 25, 2017 Xiuyun Liu, Joseph Donnelly, Marek Czosnyka, Marcel J. H. Aries, Ken Brady, Danilo Cardim, Chiara Robba, Manuel Cabeleira, Dong-Joo Kim, Christina Haubrich, Peter J. Hutchinson, Peter Smielewski
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PLOS Medicine IL33-mediated ILC2 activation and neutrophil IL5 production in the lung response after severe trauma: A reverse translation study from a human cohort to a mouse trauma model
July 25, 2017 Jing Xu, Jesse Guardado, Rosemary Hoffman, Hui Xu, Rami Namas, Yoram Vodovotz, Li Xu, Mostafa Ramadan, Joshua Brown, Heth R. Turnquist, Timothy R. Billiar
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PLOS Medicine A comparison of Selective Aortic Arch Perfusion and Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta for the management of hemorrhage-induced traumatic cardiac arrest: A translational model in large swine
July 25, 2017 Ed B. G. Barnard, James E. Manning, Jason E. Smith, Jason M. Rall, Jennifer M. Cox, James D. Ross
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PLOS Medicine Translational approaches to coagulopathy after trauma: Towards targeted treatment
July 25, 2017 Mitchell Jay Cohen
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PLOS Medicine Prescription medicine use by pedestrians and the risk of injurious road traffic crashes: A case-crossover study
July 18, 2017 Mélanie Née , Marta Avalos, Audrey Luxcey, Benjamin Contrand, Louis-Rachid Salmi, Annie Fourrier-Réglat, Blandine Gadegbeku, Emmanuel Lagarde, Ludivine Orriols
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PLOS Medicine Pre-hospital immune responses and development of Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome following traumatic injury: A Prospective Cohort Study
July 18, 2017 Jon Hazeldine, David Naumann, Emma Toman, David Davies, Jonathan Bishop, Zhangjie Su, Peter Hampson, Robert Dinsdale, Nicholas Crombie, Niharika Duggal, Paul Harrison, Antonio Belli, Janet Lord
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PLOS Medicine Trauma care: Finding a better way
July 18, 2017 Hasan B. Alam
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PLOS Medicine Research questions in pre-hospital trauma care
July 18, 2017 David J. Lockey
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PLOS Medicine Signatures of inflammation and impending multiple organ dysfunction in the hyperacute phase of trauma: A prospective cohort study
July 17, 2017 Claudia P. Cabrera , Joanna Manson , Joanna M. Shepherd , Hew D. Torrance, David Watson, M. Paula Longhi, Mimoza Hoti, Minal B. Patel, Michael O’Dwyer, Sussan Nourshargh, Daniel J. Pennington, Michael R. Barnes, Karim Brohi
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PLOS Medicine Years of lost life due to traumatic brain injury in Europe: a cross-sectional analysis of 16 countries in 2013
July 11, 2017 Marek Majdan, Dominika Plancikova, Andrew Maas, Suzanne Polinder, Valery Feigin, Alice Theadom, Martin Rusnak, Alexandra Brazinova, Juanita Haagsma
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PLOS Medicine Trends in traumatic brain injury mortality in China, 2006-2013: a population-based longitudinal study
July 11, 2017 Peixia Cheng, Peng Yin, Peishan Ning, Lijun Wang, Xunjie Cheng, Yunning Liu, David Schwebel, Jiangmei Liu, Jinlei Qi, Guoqing Hu, Maigeng Zhou
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PLOS Medicine Validation of the sensitivity of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) Head computed tomographic (CT) decision instrument for selective imaging of blunt head injury patients: An observational study
July 11, 2017 William Mower, Malkeet Gupta, Robert Rodriguez, Gregory Hendey
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PLOS Medicine Cellular therapies in trauma and critical care medicine: Looking towards the future
July 11, 2017 Shibani Pati, Todd Rasmussen
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PLOS Medicine Time for Trauma Immunology
July 11, 2017 Timothy Billiar, Yoram Vodovotz
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PLOS Medicine Timing of Femoral Shaft Fracture Fixation Following Major Trauma: A Retrospective Cohort Study of United States Trauma Centers
July 5, 2017 James Byrne, Avery Nathens, David Gomez, Daniel Pincus, Richard Jenkinson
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PLOS Medicine Risk of hospitalization with neurodegenerative disease after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury in the working-age population: A retrospective cohort study using the Finnish national health registries
July 5, 2017 Rahul Raj, Jaakko Kaprio, Miikka Korja, Era Mikkonen, Pekka Jousilahti, Jari Siironen
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PLOS Medicine Long-term health status and trajectories of seriously injured patients: A population-based longitudinal study
July 5, 2017 Belinda Gabbe, Pam Simpson, Peter Cameron, Jennie Ponsford, Ronan Lyons, Alex Collie, Mark Fitzgerald, Rodney Judson, Warwick Teague, Sandra Braaf, Andrew Nunn, Shanthi Ameratunga, James Harrison
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PLOS Medicine Ammonium tetrathiomolybdate following ischemia/reperfusion injury: Chemistry, pharmacology, and impact of a new class of sulfide donor in preclinical injury models
July 5, 2017 Alex Dyson, Felipe Dal-Pizzol, Giovanni Sabbatini, Anna Lach, Federica Galfo, Juliano dos Santos Cardoso, Bruna Pescador Mendonça, Iain Hargreaves, Bernardo Bollen Pinto, Daniel Bromage, John Martin, Kevin Moore, Martin Feelisch, Mervyn Singer
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PLOS Medicine Major scientific lessons learned in the trauma field over the last two decades
July 5, 2017 John Holcomb

Additional Content

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Speaking of Medicine A PLOS Medicine Special Issue: Trauma | Speaking of Medicine
July 5, 2017 Senior Editor Tom McBride gives an overview of the first week of the PLOS Medicine Trauma Special Issue