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Pseudofracture: An Acute Peripheral Tissue Trauma Model
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2011
Pseudofracture, a reproducible murine model of sterile musculoskeletal trauma, allows for evaluation of late term post-traumatic immune responses. This article describes the procedural execution of the model step by step, including the potential for experimental model combinations to permit study of multiple trauma.
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Acute Brain Trauma in Mice Followed By Longitudinal Two-photon Imaging
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2014
Acute brain trauma is a severe injury that has no adequate treatment to date. Multiphoton microscopy allows studying longitudinally the process of acute brain trauma development and probing therapeutical strategies in rodents. Two models of acute brain trauma studied with in vivo two-photon imaging of brain are demonstrated in this protocol.
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Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) Exam: Image Acquisition
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2023
The Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) exam is a diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound examination used to screen for the presence of free fluid in the pericardium and peritoneum. Indications, techniques, and pitfalls of the procedure are discussed in this article.
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Direct Mouse Trauma/Burn Model of Heterotopic Ossification
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2015
An Achilles tenotomy and burn injury model of heterotopic ossification allows for the reliable study of trauma induced ectopic bone formation without the application of exogenous factors.
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Use of a Psychophysiological Script-driven Imagery Experiment to Study Trauma-related Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder
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2018
We present a protocol of personalized script-driven trauma-related imagery and clinical assessments within a comparison design for investigating peritraumatic dissociation (PD), psychophysiological reactions, i.e. heart rate (HR) and skin conductance (SC), and psychological features of often severely traumatized individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
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Trauma exposure can activate the sympathetic nervous system and release stress hormones, producing an acute stress response. This biological reaction is part of the body’s immediate response to perceived threat, but the overview does not specify a single symptom pattern or clinical outcome for every person. In medicine, recognizing this response helps place acute reactions within a broader health assessment.
Repeated or severe exposure may influence emotional regulation, sleep, cognition, and other health outcomes rather than affecting only one aspect of well-being. These domains provide a framework for considering how trauma-related experiences may appear in clinical settings. Their involvement also supports evaluating both immediate concerns and longer-term recovery when clinicians review a patient’s history.
Stress hormones are part of the acute biological response associated with trauma exposure. Their involvement connects psychological threat with measurable physiological processes, making them relevant to medical and public health research. The provided material does not identify particular hormones or laboratory tests, but it emphasizes that studying stress responses can contribute to understanding health outcomes after acute, repeated, or severe exposure.
The overview indicates that repeated or severe exposure may influence emotional regulation, sleep, cognition, and other health outcomes, but it does not prescribe identical effects for all individuals. This variability makes trauma history an important part of clinical context rather than a standalone predictor. Assessment can therefore support individualized diagnosis, risk evaluation, and care planning.
Clinicians assess trauma history as part of diagnosis, risk evaluation, and trauma-informed care. The source does not specify a particular questionnaire, interview sequence, or screening threshold, so assessment methods may vary by setting and purpose. In practice, the history provides context for understanding health concerns and selecting an approach that acknowledges possible effects on well-being.
Trauma-informed care is relevant across emergency medicine, mental health, primary care, and community settings. These environments may address different points in a person’s care, yet each can use trauma history to inform clinical understanding and risk evaluation. Applying this perspective across settings supports a more consistent response to trauma-related health needs without limiting the topic to one specialty.
Research on trauma exposure supports prevention, early intervention, and investigation of resilience and long-term recovery. In public health, this work can help frame efforts before or soon after harmful effects emerge. In clinical research, it provides context for examining how people recover over time, while resilience studies focus on variation in longer-term outcomes rather than assuming the same course for everyone.