Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 1998

What's Inside

• Evaluation of Unstable Abdominal Trauma
• Management of Correctional Facility Stabbings
• Abstracts:
  • Delayed Death Two Months After Severe Whiplash Injury
  • Delayed Brain Hemorrhage After Blunt Head Injury.
  • The Fatal Syndrome of Commotio Cordis or Cardiac Concussion.
  • Sudden Death: Beta Blockade in Tachycardic Trauma Patient.
  • Level IV Trauma Centers: A New Designation.
  • Energy Expenditure (E.E.) Calculated by the Fick Equation in Respiratory Failure: Use of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter.
  • Failure of Oral Airways to Relieve Upper Airway Obstruction in Unconscious Patients.

Mike Duff, MD, FACS, FCCM

• Missouri Committee on Trauma Editor-in-Chief

• Chairman, Missouri Committee on Trauma

• Vice Chairs, Missouri Committee on Trauma

• Editor

This newsletter is supported by the Missouri Committee on Trauma, American College of Surgeons.

TRAUMA RESUSCITATION: EMERGING TRENDS is an educational publication intended to introduce the reader to trauma research. It is not a substitute for reading the original research and should not be used as the only basis for medical treatment.

Copyright 1998. Missouri Committee on Trauma, American College of Surgeons. All rights reserved.