EDITORIAL

• Nanomedicine: Technologies Impacting on Tomorrow’s Medicine (pag. 3)
  SORIN MELINTE, DAN MARINESCU

LEADING ARTICLE

• Intraoperative cell-saver autotransfusion in politrauma patients (pag. 5)
  DOINA MARIN and colab.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

• Facial fractures and simultaneous lesions in traumatized patients (pag. 8)
  CONSTANŢA MÎRŞU, CĂTĂLIN FLORIŢĂ

CLINICAL PRACTICE

• Nasal fractures diagnosis and treatment (pag. 12)
  CONSTANŢA MÎRŞU, CĂTĂLIN FLORIŢĂ
• Retroperitoneal haematona, rare complication of acute pancreatitis (pag. 17)
  CAESAR MURGU and colab.

REVIEW ARTICLE

• A review of the fluid resuscitation strategies in trauma care-the concept of permissive hypotension (pag. 21)
  ANCA BÎRLIGA
• Compartment syndrome (pag. 27)
  GHEORGHE POPESCU

CASE REPORTS

• Traumatic spinal epidural hematoma — an important neurosurgical emergency (pag. 40)
  MIHAELA TEODORU and colab.
• Medical history a critical step in metal fume fever diagnosis (pag. 42)
  DANIELA BARTOŞ and colab.
• Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura associated to Birth Confinement (pag. 45)FLORENŢA IANCU and colab.