The geriatric trauma patient poses unique challenges to the trauma surgeon due to occult
injuries and occult hypoperfusion. We hypothesized that those elderly patients with …

INTRODUCTION: Globally, injury is amongst the leading causes of death and disability in all
age groups. Despite the use of prehospital trauma triage guidelines, identification of older …

Background The objective of this study was to compare the triage category assigned to older
trauma patients with younger trauma patients upon arrival to the emergency department …

Background: Trauma centers are caring for increased proportions of elderly patients.
Although age and Injury Severity Score are independently associated with mortality, trauma …

BACKGROUND: Despite the use of prehospital triage algorithms and other trauma scoring
methods, a substantial proportion of older patients with life-threatening injuries are …

In this commentary article, we describe the impact that an ageing population is having on the
nature of major trauma seen in emergency departments. The proportion of major trauma …

Objectives Early identification of geriatric patients at high risk for mortality is important to
guide clinical care, medical decision making, palliative discussions, quality assurance, and …

Background/Objectives Older adults are at risk for adverse outcomes after trauma, but little is
known about post-acute survival as state and national trauma registries collect only inpatient …

In busy emergency departments (EDs), elderly patients on anticoagulation (AC) sustaining
minor injuries who are triaged to a lower priority for evaluation are at risk for potentially …

METHODS Adults aged 18 to 100 years with blunt or penetrating injury were selected from
95 hospitals' trauma registries. Change point analysis techniques were used to detect …