Trauma, clinical and biological aspects : [selected papers from Proceedings of a Conference on the Pathobiology of Trauma, held at the University of Minnesota, summer 1973

Late in summer 1973, the Bell Museum of Pathology of the University of Minnesota Medical School, held a three day symposium to discuss some of the biological aspects of trauma disease. The meeting was intended to be a coatribution to the study of trauma by placing emphasis upon many of the basic biologic issues related to trauma injuries. It was also hoped to put in focus perspectives from which constructive interaction between basic research scientists and practicing clinicians could flow. It is our belief that it is through such interdisciplinary exchanges that intelligent progress and new developments will occur. Moreover we believe that the student body and the practicing physician can equally share this scientific backdrop, and in a sense must so participate, for in a technological society trauma injuries face the prospect of an almost exponential increase in numbers, decade to decade. With these views in mind we brought together biologists, biophysicists, biochemists, pathologists, physicians and surgeons, in an effort to build a new bridge of collaborative understanding between unrelated disciplines, which, in the past, have charac­ teristically rarely inter-related, one to the other. There were no hard and fast rules set in the selection of topics. Not surprisingly, therefore, the program developed into one of diverse and remarkable scope and breadth. Papers for discussion varied from the biochemistry of collagen metabolism to features of trauma characteristic of aviation and air trauma accidents. Front Matter....Pages i-x Biological Perspectives of Some Trauma Injuries....Pages 1-23 Homeostasis and Heterostasis....Pages 25-29 Collagen Metabolism in Wound Healing....Pages 31-45 Bio-Engineering Analysis of Healing Tissues (Paper in Abstract)....Pages 47-48 Biochemistry of Pathological Effects of Light Trauma (Paper in Abstract)....Pages 49-50 Trauma from Visible and Infrared Lasers....Pages 51-70 Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Hemopoiesis....Pages 71-84 The Problem of Acute Severe Trauma and Shock....Pages 85-105 Endocrine Aspects of Trauma....Pages 107-122 Microbiology of Trauma....Pages 123-169 Physiologic Effects of Endotoxemia....Pages 171-190 The Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome....Pages 191-248 Physical Maltreatment of Children....Pages 249-272 Anesthetic Problems in Trauma Management....Pages 273-302 Spinal Cord Injury and Trauma....Pages 303-327 Problems in Rehabilitation Following Trauma....Pages 329-359 Air Disaster Trauma (Paper in Abstract)....Pages 361-362 Blood Bank Problems in Trauma Management....Pages 363-368 Back Matter....Pages 369-379