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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Abdominal Injury"”.
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Submarining and Abdominal Injury for Rear-Seated Mid-Size Males during Frontal Crashes
… is of particular concern as a restraint-based injury mechanism of the abdomen. The objective of this study is to investigate submarining protection and abdominal injury risk for rear-seated mid-sized male occupants in frontal crashes and to assess the biofidelity of two anthropomorphic test …
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Corticotropin-releasing factor and acute post-operative gut function in truamatic abdominal injury and elective abdominal surgery
… of CRF in critically ill adults with traumatic abdominal injury compared with elective surgical patients, and describe any association of CRF levels with alterations in acute post-operative gastrointestinal function. Eight patients with haemorrhagic shock following penetrating abdominal injury …
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Feasibility Study of Low Dose Chest CT for Initial Evaluation of Blunt Chest Trauma Patient
… of the polytrauma patients including thoracic injury. However, the routine use of CT results in rapid increase of the CT radiation dose in blunt chest trauma evaluation. Therefore, according to the ALARA (as low as reasonable achievable) principle, radiation dose adjustment in the patients with …
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Injury Mechanisms, Tissue Properties, and Response of the Post-Mortem Human Abdomen in Frontal Impact
… (MVCs) are a leading cause of injuries and injury-related fatalities in the United States. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported over 21,250 vehicle occupant fatalities in 2011, with 1,240,000 injuries sustained by passenger car occupants alone. MVCs are a …
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Investigation of diarrhoea in critically ill patients receiving enteral nutrition
… to be significantly associated with diarrhoea. Abdominal injury was positively associated with the occurrence of diarrhoea (p<0.05). Diarrhoea could have been attributed to the underlying disease state in 7 of the patients. All three patients who were receiving lactulose as treatment for liver …