European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery

Introduction to the fourth “Focus-on” issue devoted to Disaster and Military Surgery in EJTES

S. Lennquist

Overview of polytrauma patients in the first 10 days after the Sichuan earthquake: a report from the No. 903 Military Hospital, Jiangyou

R. Gao, L. Yang, W. Yuan, T. Li, Q. Fu

Indications for bullet removal: overview of the literature, and clinical practice guidelines for European trauma surgeons

T. Dienstknecht, K. Horst, R. M. Sellei, A. Berner, M. Nerlich, T. C. Hardcastle

Contemporary body armor: technical data, injuries, and limits

N. Prat, F. Rongieras, J.-C. Sarron, A. Miras, E. Voiglio

Causes of inpatient death for patients with warfare-related limb trauma and logistic regression analysis of the risk factors

C. Z. Cheng, D. H. Zhao, Q. Y. Li, H. Y. Qu, B. C. Chen, Z. D. Lin

Assessment of hospital disaster plans for conventional mass casualty incidents following terrorist explosions using a live exercise based upon the real data of actual patients

I. Ashkenazi, A. Ohana, B. Azaria, A. Gelfer, C. Nave, Z. Deutch, I. Gens, M. Fadlon, Y. Dahan, L. Rapaport, D. Kishkinov, A. Bar, E. Tal-Or, N. Vaknin, A. Blumenfeld, B. Kessel, R. Alfici, O. Olsha, M. Michaelson

Injury pattern of suicide bomb attacks in Pakistan

M. M. A. Yasin, G. Nasreen, S. A. Malik

Clinical review: Volkmann’s ischaemic contracture

D. A. Pettitt, P. McArthur

Delays in diagnosis in early trauma care: evaluation of diagnostic efficiency and circumstances of delay

M. Muhm, T. Danko, K. Schmitz, H. Winkler

Emergency thoracotomies in the largest trauma center in Denmark: 10 years’ experience

K. Kandler, L. Konge, S. Rafiq, C. F. Larsen, J. Ravn

What are the predictors of scapula fractures in high-impact blunt trauma patients and why do we miss them in the emergency department?

M. Uzkeser, M. Emet, M. Kılıç, M. Işık

Severe pelvic fracture-related bleeding in pediatric patients: does it occur?

H. Tuovinen, T. Söderlund, J. Lindahl, T. Laine, P. Åström, L. Handolin

Prehospital HMG Co-A reductase inhibitor use and reduced mortality in hemorrhagic shock due to trauma

J. M. Feeney, V. Jayaraman, J. Spilka, D. S. Shapiro, S. Ellner, W. T. Marshall III, L. M. Jacobs

Analysis of factors predicting success and failure of treatment after type B periprosthetic humeral fractures: a case series study

H. Wolf, G. Pajenda, K. Sarahrudi

Do stable multiply injured patients with bilateral femur fractures have higher complication rates? An investigation by the EPOFF study group

Roman Pfeifer, Dieter Rixen, Elisabeth Ellingsen Husebye, Dustin Pardini, Michael Müller, Clemens Dumont, Hans Georg Oestern, Peter Giannoudis, Hans-Christoph Pape

Results of the femur fractures treated with the new selfdynamisable internal fixator (SIF)

Milorad Mitkovic, S. Milenkovic, I. Micic, D. Mladenovic, Milan Mitkovic

Message from the President