Banu Arslan

Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital

Trauma resulting from accidents, violence, or war claims over five million lives annually, with traffic accidents and falls being predominant causes. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges in trauma care. Even though the number of injuries decreased during the lockdown period, the transportation of trauma patients became even more...

Background: Chatbots hold great potential to serve as support tool in diagnosis and clinical decision process. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the accuracy of chatbots in diagnosing pulmonary embolism (PE). Furthermore, we assessed their performance in determining the PE severity. Method: 65 case reports meeting our inclusion criteria were sele...

Background: Smartwatches have gained tremendous attention in recent years and have become widely accepted by patients, despite not being intended for medical diagnosis. Objective: This study aimed to determine the accuracy of Apple Watch oxygen saturation measurement in patients with acute exacerbation of COPD by comparing it with medical-grade...

Objective: Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an agent of the pandemic coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Newvariants that have emerged throughout these pandemic presented new challenges and made the disease control process even more difficult. In ourstudy, we aimed to investigate the effect of variants on the progres...

Lactic acid is the end-product of anaerobic glycolysis. It is generally believed that elevated blood lactate levels are associated with poor patient outcomes. Literature reports that lactic acidosis can be related to supplementary food intake in the pediatric age group however, in adult patients, it is not common to see lactic acidosis due to oral...

Pulmonary hydatid cyst during pregnancy is extremely rare and life-threatening for the mother and fetus. Throughout pregnancy, hydatid cysts may enlarge due to the suppression of cellular immunity and steroids secreted from the placenta. In late pregnancy, the cysts can reach a huge volume with an increased risk for subsequent rupture due to the co...

Over 400 years ago, Swiss alchemist and physician Paracelsus (1493-1541) cited: "All substances are poisons; there is none that is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy." This is often condensed to: "The dose makes the poison." So, why are we overtly anxious about intoxications?In fact, poisons became a global problem w...

Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) is still a substantial cause of high mortality and severe neurological morbidity during recent decades, despite the advances in diagnosis and antimicrobial therapy.Streptococcus pneumonia (pneumococci), Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), and Neisseria meningitidis (meningococci) are the most commonly isolated orga...

https://www.intechopen.com/books/trauma-surgery Although trauma victims constitute around one-tenth to one-eighth of the total patient volume in hospital emergency departments, the burden of trauma on humankind is beyond these statistics. The twenty-first century is witnessing a growing threat on human beings imposed by many sources, namely natura...

Pain is recorded as the commonest complaint on admission in the acute setting [1]. In 2008, roughly, 45% of ED visits were noted to have involved either moderate or severe pain [2]. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) describes pain as 'an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue...

Hemorrhagic shock remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Resuscitation strategies for patients with ongoing hemorrhage and early haemorrhagic shock are in constant change. Recognition of the major mechanisms of shock and hemostasis paved the way to advances in trauma resuscitation. Aggressive crystalloid resuscitation in hemo...