Trauma and emergency: is the unified health system (SUS) the solution in Brazil?

The Effects of Topical Sesame (Sesamum indicum) Oil on Pain Severity and Amount of Received Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs in Patients with Upper or Lower Extremities Trauma

“…Today, studies have shown increasing rate of trauma, especially in the U.S ( 4 , 5 ). In developing countries, most deaths are caused by trauma as well ( 2 , 6 - 8 ). Iran is a country with a high rate of road traffic crash fatality and injury.…”

The experience of an Academic League: the positive impact on knowledge about trauma and emergency

“…benefits of extracurricular activities, such as integration with colleagues, supplementation of the course, feeling of well-being, attendance to professional inquiries and greater contact with society, promoting health and social transformation, expansion of critical sense and scientific reasoning9,10 .The perception of the relevance of these and other complementary structures, in consonance with the idealization of the "parallel" and "informal" curriculum, leads to ponder the need of integration and transposition of the extracurricular activities to the traditional education programs. However, some factors can be pointed out as obstacles to this process, such as difficulty of integration between disciplines and between theory and practice, strenuous workload of the usual curriculum with little time available for extracurricular activities, lack of political desire or material difficulties, such as a lack of physical structure and practice rooms,` lack of trained and available teachers, and high cost of laboratory skills and mannequins for simulated training10,[17][18][19] . Most of these points reflect the abscence of financial and researchinvestments destined to the teaching of trauma and emergency, so that they are, therefore, delegated to extracurricular activities such as academic leagues and mentoring.…”