Mechanic

"“The University [MSU] has advanced beyond any campus in the Big Ten to establish educational programs and opportunities for students to learn about the role and importance of Latinos nationwide.” - Memo from Dr. Lee June, vice president of student affairs to members of MSU MEXA in 1998 outlining the steps taken by the university in regards to their demands.

During the 1990s as an undergraduate student at Michigan State University it was my privilege to witness and participate in the Xicano history incompletely related in these pages. This story is about those students, my comrades, their struggle to organize and fight against “the state’s attempts to embed complacency inside of them” finding voice within their demand for Xicano Studies. It is important to remember that it wasn’t until the 1990s the Chicano/Latino population at MSU reached sufficient numbers to carry out the type of direct action needed to build enough pressure on the university to force agreement. This political boost through numbers allowed Xicano/Latino students to begin thinking about self-determinative solutions and organizing around direct action to make those solutions a reality."

Complex pelvic injuries are among the most dangerous and deadly trauma related lesions. Different classification systems exist, some are based on the mechanism of injury, some on anatomic patterns and some are focusing on the resulting instability requiring operative fixation. The optimal treatment strategy, however, should keep into consideration the hemodynamic status, the anatomic impairment of pelvic ring function and the associated injuries. The management of pelvic trauma patients aims definitively to restore the homeostasis and the normal physiopathology associated to the mechanical stability of the pelvic ring. Thus the management of pelvic trauma must be multidisciplinary and should be ultimately based on the physiology of the patient and the anatomy of the injury. This paper presents the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) classification of pelvic trauma and the management Guidelines.