Systematic Reviews of Trauma Care and Rehabilitation

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of trauma care and rehabilitation.
Created May 2008

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Title:   Advanced trauma life support training for hospital staff
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Training in 'advanced trauma life support' (ATLS) is increasingly used in both rich and poor countries. ATLS is intended to improve the way in which care to the injured is given and, through this, to cut death and disability rates. Some research has bee...
Date:   Apr 2003
Title:   Advanced trauma life support training for ambulance crews
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Injury is one of the top ten causes of death and disability worldwide. It results in an early loss of life for many young people and ongoing high medical care costs. Advanced Life Support (ALS) for ambulance officers is believed to have contributed to t...
Date:   Feb 2001
Title:   Interventions for treating posterior cruciate ligament injuries of the knee in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is a lack of high quality evidence (randomized controlled trials) for the treatment of PCL injuries of the knee. Observational studies have suggested that isolated PCL injuries may be treated conservatively, with good prognosis. In more severe inj...
Date:   Nov 2004
Title:   Exercise for treating anterior cruciate ligament injuries in combination with collateral ligament and meniscal damage of the knee in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The anterior cruciate ligament of the knee provides stability of the lower leg bone (tibia) relative to the thigh bone (femur) and guides knee extension. Injury to this ligament, and the supporting ligaments (collaterals) and shock absorbers (menisci) i...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Locomotor training for walking after spinal cord injury
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is insufficient evidence to conclude that one locomotor training strategy is more effective than another for improving walking ability in people with spinal cord injury (SCI)....
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Rehabilitation for hamstring injuries
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hamstring injuries are commonly encountered in sports medicine, and clinical management of this problem can differ widely. There is limited evidence to suggest that rate of recovery can be increased with an increased daily frequency of hamstring stretch...
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Rehabilitation after surgery for flexor tendon injuries in the hand
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Flexor tendons in the hand are strings of fibrous tissue (sinews) that allow the fingers to bend. They are often cut, mostly by accidents with knives or glass. After surgery to join the ends of the tendon together, supported exercises are used to preser...
Date:   Jun 2004
Title:   Surgical versus conservative interventions for anterior cruciate ligament ruptures in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is a common knee injury that often results in an unstable knee. Surgical treatment, usually involving reconstruction of the ligament, is widely used especially in active individuals. This review identified two ra...
Date:   Feb 2005
Title:   Colloids versus crystalloids for fluid resuscitation in critically ill patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Trauma, burns or surgery can cause people to lose large amounts of blood. Fluid replacement, giving fluids intravenously (into a vein) to replace lost blood, is used to try to maintain blood pressure and reduce the risk of dying. Blood products, non-blo...
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   Emergency intubation for acutely ill and injured patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Acute illness and injury are the most common causes of death and disability worldwide in people aged under 50 years. The highest priority in an emergency is to enable a patient to breathe by securing their airway (passage from the nose and mouth into th...
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Spinal injuries centres (SICs) for acute traumatic spinal cord injury
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Spinal cord injury is a serious condition and the effects are usually permanent. In several countries, specialist centres have been set up, where patients can be taken within a few hours of their injury, but even in these countries many patients are dea...
Date:   Jun 2004
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