Rethinking Trauma as a Global Challenge
World distribution and type of lethal event Number Rate per 100,000 Percentage % Low- and middle-income countries 1,510,000 32.1 91.1 High-income countries 149,000 14.4 8.9 Homicide 520,000 8.8 31.3 Suicide…
Clinical Diagnosis of Traumatised Immigrants
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Meryam Schouler-Ocak (ed.)Trauma and Migration10.1007/978-3-319-17335-1_7 7. Clinical Diagnosis of Traumatised Immigrants Ibrahim Özkan1 and Maria Belz1 (1) Department for Cultures, Migration and Mental Disorders, Asklepios Fachklinikum Göttingen, Rosdorfer Weg 70, Göttingen,…
Migration, Trauma and Resilience
Sociocentric Egocentric Extended/joint family Nuclear family Status predetermined Status oriented Strong social links Weak social links Little or no choice Choice of partner Interdependent Independent Group advance Individual advance Tradition…
Trauma and Migration: The Role of Stigma
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Meryam Schouler-Ocak (ed.)Trauma and Migration10.1007/978-3-319-17335-1_5 5. Trauma and Migration: The Role of Stigma Levent Küey1 (1) Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey…
The Epidemiology of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Focus on Refugee and Immigrant Populations
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Meryam Schouler-Ocak (ed.)Trauma and Migration10.1007/978-3-319-17335-1_3 3. The Epidemiology of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Focus on Refugee and Immigrant Populations Marion C. Aichberger1 (1) Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Mitte, Charité…
Surgical Advances in the Treatment of Abdominal Wall Hernias
and Ángel Zorraquino González2 (1) Department of Abdominal Wall Surgery, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Valencia, La Fe University Hospital, Valencia, Spain (2) Department of General Surgery, Abdominal Wall…
Laparoscopic Approaches in General Surgery: Is There Anything New?
Fig. 30.1 Hand-assisted surgery setup with surgeon using nondominant hand in port and additional laparoscopic trocars using instruments and camera Fig. 30.2 Intraoperative picture showing the use of the hand…
Brain Cancer: The New Frontiers
Fig. 22.1 T1 axial (a) and coronal (b) post-gadolinium-enhanced MRI showing multiple peripherally enhancing metastatic lesions in an individual with known metastatic breast cancer Fig. 22.2 T1 axial post-gadolinium-enhanced MRI…
Nanotechnologies in Surgery: The New Paradigm
Fig. 4.1 Comparison of size of objects from 10−10 to 1 m. (Used with permission from Kateb B, Chiu K, Black KL, et al. Nanoplatforms for constructing new approaches to…
Damage Control and Organ Injury Priority Management of Trauma Patients
Past Current Future Surgery Aggressive definitive surgery Damage control surgery Prehospital control of bleeding Improvement of haemostatic agents. Improvement of interventional radiology with hybrid theatre Haemostatic agents Coagulopathy “Catch…
