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The non-haemorrhagic vagal response to trauma: a review of hypotensive and bradycardic responses to injury in the absence of bleeding

Abstract Purpose Trauma has the potential to cause haemorrhage, tissue damage, pain, visceral manipulation and psychological distress. Each of these consequences of trauma can cause changes in autonomic outflow, which dictates a patient’s vital signs. Patients who are hypotensive and bradycardic due to a vagally mediated parasympathetic response to pain, psychological distress and visceral manipulation […]

Haemorrhage, trauma, Vagus nerve, Vital signs

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Miscellaneous

The Pain Management of Trauma Patients in the Emergency Department

Abstract The vast majority of injured patients suffer from pain. Systematic assessment of pain on admission to the emergency department (ED) is a cornerstone of translating the best treatment strategies for patient care into practice. Pain must be measured with severity scales that are validated in clinical practice, including for specific populations (such as

pain, pain management, trauma

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Miscellaneous

Splenic injury from blunt trauma

Abstract Injury to the spleen is one of the most common solid organ injuries in blunt trauma1. Following the primary and secondary survey in an injured patient, the potential dynamic alteration in the event of ongoing haemorrhage should be kept in mind. A sick patient should be in the operating theatre unless response to resuscitation

blunt trauma, splenic, splenic injury, trauma

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