TRAUMA.ORG: An Incompleat History of Trauma

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		1996		Definitive Surgical Trauma Care courses start - IATSIC
		1995		First Internet Trauma Website - TraumaNET Ernest Block, Louisiana, USA Trauma.Org goes online August 1995
		1994	Permissive Hypotension for penetrating torso injuries
First reported successiful resuscitative prehospital thoracotomy. Houston, Texas First successful prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy for cardiac stab wound. London, UK		1993

		1991	Primary repair of colon injuries: Results of first randomised controlled trial
		1989	First use of term 'abdominal compartment syndrome'
		1988	Report on the Management of Patients with Major Injuries (UK)

		1986		First Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
		1985	Injury in America - A Continuing Publc Health Problem. White paper
Abdominal Compartment Syndrome recognised as clinical entity		1984
		1983	Trimodal Distribution of Death described Trunkey, Scientific American
		1982		Major Trauma Outcome Study American College of Surgeons

		1979		American College of Surgeons ATLS Course
		1978		Nebraska Advanced Trauma Life Support Course

		1976	Optimal Resources for the Care of the Seriously Injured

		1971		Designation of Trauma Centers first established by US state law - Illinois

		1966	Accidental Death and Disability. The Neglected Disease of Modern Society. White Paper.	First US civilian trauma unit Cook Country, Chicago

First successful repair of extra-pericardial thoracic aorta. Perkins or Klassen?		1958

		1951	Woodhall & Oschner show improved results with primary repair of colon injuries (civilian data) Baggot describes 'abdominal blow-out'

		1943	Mandatory colostomy for colorectal injuries: Surgeon General of US

		1941		First Trauma Centre Opens Birminham Accident Hospital
First laparostomy for trauma (W.H. Ogilivie)		1940

		1927	First textbook on cardiac injuries. 535 cases. Djanelidze

		1918	First data supporting 'Golden Hour' concept First data supporting permissive hypotension (Cannon)
		1917	Cuthbert Wallace reports on 1200 gunshot wounds to the abdomen

First successful repair of aortic injury		1913

		1911	Emerson publishes treatise on intra-abdominal pressure

First successful US cardiorrhaphy Hill, Alabama, USA		1902
First use of open open cardiac massage in trauma Kristian Igelsrud, Norway		1901

		1898		First Fatal Car Crash Henry Lindfield, Purley, UK

		1896		First Road Traffic Death Bridget Driscoll. Crystal Palace, UK
First successful human cardiac repair Ludwig Rehn, Frankfurt, Germany		1895

	Yustin Y Djanelidze born 2nd August, Georgia, Russia	1883

Airway clearance added to resuscitation attempts Marshall Hall		1856

First successful pericardiocentesis for trauma Dominique-Jean Larrey		1829

First successful ligation of common carotid		1803

'Flying Ambulance' used by French army Dominique-Jean Larrey		1797

First Successful Trauma Resuscitation Thomas Squires, Humane Society, London, UK		1774

	Dominique-Jean Larrey Born July 8, 1766, Badeau, France	1766



First repair of intestinal injury Matthaeus Purman		1675
First use of tourniquet to control haemorrhage		1674


First recorded treatment of cervical vascular injury Amboise Paré		1552

Jugular vein repair Roger of Salerno		1200

'Canon of Medicine' Avicenna, Persia. Passages on wound healing		1012
	Avicenna Born 980	980

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First description shoulder reduction		c1300
First recorded penetrating intesting injury? Book of Judges		c1330

		c1600	Edwin Smith Papyrus

First fracture splinting & Amputations Giza, Egypt		c2400