John Templeton

TL;DR: Over a 3 year period all severely injured blunt trauma patients who were investigated with abdominal ultrasound examinations (AUS) or diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) to exclude intra-abdominal injury were evaluated; the overall sensitivity and specificity of abdominal ultrasound were 82.7% and 99.5%, respectively.

TL;DR: The observed improvement in survival in severely injured patients must result from the interplay of factors not controlled in this analysis or improvements in patient care or both.

TL;DR: Highly significant differences in crude mortality were rendered non-significant by case-mix adjustments, supporting the null hypothesis that the two centres were equally effective in terms of this short-term indicator of outcome.

TL;DR: Ten years of trauma audit data from one hospital are modelled as an Artificial Neural Network in order to compare the results with a more traditional logistic regression analysis, which shows the usefulness of using both traditional and non-traditional analysis techniques together and of including as many factors in the analysis as possible.

TL;DR: There is insufficient work to justify specialist general surgical trauma surgeons in the UK, according to a prospective audit of trauma patients seen or treated at the North Staffordshire Hospital Trauma Centre.