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Gaceta médica de México
On-line version ISSN 2696-1288Print version ISSN 0016-3813
Abstract
CARREON-BRINGAS, Rosa María and RODRIGUEZ-PAZ, Carlos Agustín. The beginnings of trauma management in Mexico City. 1847-1914. Gac. Méd. Méx [online]. 2005, vol.141, n.2, pp.161-163. ISSN 2696-1288.
We describe how surgical trauma was managed in Mexico City from 1847 to 1912. Management included minimal interventions, generally ending with the patient's death. Other more radical procedures such as abdomen trauma proposed in 1874 and performed in 1898 are also described. A variety of techniques employed and type of trauma cases registered that yielded more radical attitudes that brought about the creation of public emergency rooms (the Cruz Verde) and military surgical rooms in railroad cars that oversaw the care of soldiers during the revolutionary period are discussed.
Keywords : History; trauma management; Mexico City.