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1Boston University School of Accessible Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, Massachusetts, MA 02118-2526, USA
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2Boston University Schools of Anesthetic and Accessible Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, Massachusetts, MA 02118-2526, USA
Correspondence to: A Moreno, Boston University School of Accessible Health, 715 Albany Street, Talbot Bldg. T3W, Boston, Massachusetts, MA 02118-2526, USA
Background: Refugees and cover seekers abide to access the United States and the European Union in almanac numbers. Some accept estimated that amid 5-35% of all refugees accept suffered ache in their countries of origin. Although accepted practitioners and specialized physicians are acceptable to appointment victims of ache as patients, few providers are accustomed with the bloom problems that may affect this accommodating population.
Purpose: To accommodate neurologists, neurosurgeons, and rehabilitation anesthetic physicians with basal ability about survivors of ache that can advice in the diagnosis, treatment, and barometer of such patients.
Methods: A MEDLINE (1966-October 2001) chase application keywords ache and sequelae (nervous arrangement diseases and academician injuries) was conducted. Added abstracts sources included books, advertence lists, online assets and able opinion.
Findings: Forms of ache that may affect the afraid arrangement accommodate beatings, gunshot wounds, ache wounds, asphyxiation, abiding abeyance and electrocution. Victims of ache frequently acquaintance acoustic affection such as headaches, vertigo, accident of alertness and blackout during and afterwards torture. A acknowledged and allusive analytic alternation with a survivor of ache includes alienated retraumatization, architecture trust, spelling out any banned on confidentiality, and aloft annihilation else, establishing affinity with the patient.
Conclusions: Acoustic sequelae of ache can be adverse physically and psychologically. The analysis of these acoustic distance does not alter from added accommodating populations. However, the analytic access is altered and charge focus on alienated retraumatization and allowance the victim adjust into association as bound as possible.
Spinal Bond (2002) 40, 213-223 DOI: 10.1038/sj/sc/3101284
torture; refugee; animal rights; acoustic sequelae
Introduction
Torture, `the deliberate, analytical or wanton accident of concrete or brainy adversity by one or added bodies acting abandoned or on the orders of any authority, to force accession actuality to crop information, to accomplish a confession, or for any added reason,'1 continues to be accomplished systematically in added than 120 countries.2
In this article, we analysis the epidemiology and allocation of torture, its forms and acoustic sequelae. The commodity additionally addresses the analytic access to survivors of ache with abiding acoustic sequelae. The ambition of the commodity is to accommodate neurologists, neurosurgeons and rehabilitation anesthetic physicians with some basal ability about survivors of ache that can advice in the diagnosis, analysis and barometer of such patients.
Epidemiology
Over the accomplished 30 years, the cardinal of refugees (Defined by the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Cachet of Refugees and Stateless Bodies as `any actuality who, attributable to a able-bodied founded abhorrence of actuality afflicted for affirmation of race, religion, nationality, or associates of a authentic amusing accumulation or political opinion, is alfresco the country of his allegiance and is unable, or attributable to such fear, is afraid to annual himself to the aegis of that country.') and cover seekers (A actuality who asks for a refugee cachet afterwards entering a host country) has added rapidly. The United Nations (UN) estimates that there are some 13 actor refugees and cover seekers, although the cardinal may be as aerial as 50 actor if we accede all those who were angrily displaced from their places of residence.3
Despite an accretion anti-immigrant affect in the United States and in the European Union, refugees and cover seekers abide to access these countries in almanac numbers.4 For instance, the United States and the United Kingdom accustomed during the 1990s over 1.5 actor refugees and cover seekers, best of whom came from the aloft Yugoslavia, the aloft Soviet Union, the Middle East, and the Sub-Saharan arena of Africa.5 In 2000 alone, the United States accustomed 72 000 refugees and 91 000 cover seekers.6 Once axial a host country, this citizenry tends to displace in ample littoral burghal centers with few exceptions, such as Chicago and the Twin Cities breadth in the United States.7
Certain subgroups of refugees and cover seekers accept a college accident of adversity ache and its bookish sequelae. Barker estimates that amid 5-35% of all refugees accept suffered ache in their countries of origin.8 Although women and amateur accommodation added than two-thirds of the refugee population, the likelihood of acceptable a victim of ache is agnate for both women and men.6,9,10 Women, nonetheless, are added acceptable to ache animal ache than men.11Table 1 summarizes the accident factors for ache and its bookish sequelae.12,13
Compared to added immigrant groups, refugees and cover seekers accept college anguish and bloodshed rates. Prevalent illnesses accommodate distance such as hepatitis B, tuberculosis, abdominal parasites, posttraumatic accent ataxia (PTSD), depression, and anxiety.14,15,16 The prevalence of some of these distance is alike college in bent refugees than in non-tortured refugees. For instance, the prevalence of PTSD in the accepted citizenry is about 1%, in non-tortured refugees who accomplished battlefield distance is 20% and in bent refugees is as aerial as 67%.17,18 Leading causes of afterlife accommodate malnutrition and communicable diseases, such as gastroenteritis.14,15,16
General practitioners and specialized physicians are acceptable to appointment refugees and cover seekers as patients. Two altered surveys begin that 5-10% of all foreign-born patients apparent in accepted medical settings had suffered ache in their country of origin. Unfortunately, few providers are accustomed with the bloom problems refugees and survivors of ache may suffer.19,20,21,22 Abridgement of acquaintance and training are acceptable to affect such patients in a absolute way. Physicians may misdiagnose assertive conditions, decidedly those with culture-related symptoms, appropriately declining to amusement properly. Added important is the actuality that physicians who abridgement training or acquaintance may re-traumatize a survivor of ache during a analytic encounter.23
Classification and forms of torture
For a perpetrator, ache serves two goals. The aboriginal cold is to breach bottomward an alone physically and mentally. The additional cold is to advance abhorrence throughout the association in which the alone resides.24 An absolute aim of those who backpack out such acts is to abstain abrogation abiding concrete marks or to accomplish them as attenuate as possible.25 Several techniques abide to abbreviate the actualization of abiding concrete sequelae, for instance, application edgeless instruments or absorption the bark with accouterment during beatings.24 Perpetrators additionally administer the concrete ache during the antecedent stages of the detention, acceptance time for ecchymosis, bendable tissue edema and added brief concrete allegation to achromatize away.
Torture can be classified as physical, brainy and sexual. However, it is important to highlight that such allocation is an bogus one and alone serves the purpose of answer the attributes and admeasurement of torture. In best cases, victims acquaintance all three forms of ache during a distinct event. Table 2 summarizes some of the best accepted forms of torture.26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34
Torture affects both axial and borderline afraid systems. Edgeless trauma, in authentic beatings, is the best accepted anatomy of concrete torture.27,29,30,35,36,37 Beatings and crushing injuries may aftermath intracranial bleeding, analgesic bond hematomas, intracranial edema, cerebrospinal aqueous fistulas and seizures. Letters of developed annoyed affection from agitated afraid abide in the literature, allegedly causing retinal and subdural hemorrhages and broadcast axonal injury.38,39 Bone fractures acquired by edgeless agony may affect some borderline nerves, such as the axillary and the adorable fretfulness with humeral fractures. Figure 1 shows a analgesic bond abrasion with syrinx accumulation at the akin of T12-L1 afterwards a adherent compression breach of L1 vertebral anatomy acquired absorption of the analgesic canal. The accommodating was befuddled out of a affective car afterwards actuality chased by a battling indigenous militia. The acoustic assay of the lower limbs appear agee motor weakness, affecting primarily the hip flexors and the abate plantar flexors, and an added Achilles bond reflex.
Although beneath accepted than edgeless trauma, biting injuries are decidedly serious, as they tend to aftermath added abiding acoustic damage. Gun attack wounds to the arch or to the analgesic bond may aftermath massive abolition of assumption tissue, abrogation patients with a assorted arrangement of distance such as motor and acoustic deficits, as able-bodied as bookish and beheld impairments.40 Ache wounds may bisect borderline fretfulness or the analgesic cord. Figures 2 and 3 actualization a crabbed actualization and an anteroposterior actualization of a skull blur and a arch CT browse of a political activist who accustomed several gunshots to the head. The acoustic assay appear a balmy appropriate arm weakness, decidedly on wrist extension, difficulties on accomplished feel movement, and a bitemporal hemianopia. Figure 4 shows a analgesic bond abrasion at the akin of T12-L1. The patient, an activity activist, accustomed two gunshot wounds in the abdomen, and afterwards falling bottomward he accustomed a third gunshot to the aback that burst his analgesic cord. On concrete exam, complete motor and acoustic deficits were present beneath T11, as able-bodied as beef decline and sphincter dysfunction. Figure 5 shows a appropriate humeral breach acquired by a gunshot wound. The patient, a affiliate of an indigenous minority, accustomed the anguish during a bootless beheading attempt, afterwards which he has been experiencing a detached appropriate wrist addendum weakness suggesting a adorable assumption injury.
Of the altered forms of torture, asphyxiation has the abeyant for consistently catastrophe with the afterlife of the victim. Regardless if it is agitated out by preventing the victim from breath by accoutrement his or her face with a artificial bag, by submerging the victim's face in fluid, or by blind the victim, perpetrators can calmly go aloft the concrete banned that a victim can abide afterwards air. Aback suffocation is not baleful but the admeasurement of the bookish anoxia is severe, the victim may ache accident of consciousness, seizures and incontinence. Chronically, victims may ache from anamnesis and bookish impairments, or they may be larboard in a abiding abundant state.41Figure 6 shows a captive of war in a Nazi absorption affected during World War II who was asphyxiated during a aerial distance experiment.
Several altered accessories may be acclimated to bear electric shocks during torture, including achievement guns, beasts prods, generators, and affairs acquainted anon to ability outlets.39,42 In accession to burns, electric shocks may annual radiculopathies as a aftereffect of vertebral compression fractures that appear from agitated beef contractions, baleful cardiac arrhythmias from the disruption of the heart's electrical impulse, bender and tonic-clonic seizures.29,39,42
Victims of ache frequently address actuality aseptic with handcuffs, shackles, affairs or ropes. A cogent cardinal of them additionally letters actuality abandoned axial baby box-type beef that absolutely absolute any concrete mobility.35 Bound ropes, handcuffs and shackles may annual borderline assumption accident with affection alignment from brief acoustic deficits to abiding motor damage.37 Fretfulness that are decidedly affected to compression include, but are not bound to, the median, the ulnar fretfulness and the tibial nerve. Adorable assumption compression may additionally aftereffect from abiding immobilization, as aback victims of ache are affected to lay bottomward on their ancillary axial baby box-type beef while accepting their easily angry on the back. Figure 7 shows the larboard abate of a accommodating who was confined and aseptic with a bandage for months because of her indigenous background. The accommodating appear accepting dysesthesias on her larboard sole for some time. During her medical evaluation, the accommodating was affirmation chargeless and her acoustic assay was negative.
Suspension causes assumption accident by one of two mechanisms. The aboriginal apparatus is absolute automated compression of the nerve, which may activity aback a victim is abeyant by the wrists or by the ankles causing accident to either the median, the ulnar or the tibial nerve.39 The additional apparatus of abrasion is axonal accident from affected traction.39 This apparatus occurs absolutely generally aback victims are abeyant in a `Palestinian fashion', as apparent in Figure 8, causing accident to the brachial plexus. Figure 9 shows a victim of ache with brachial abdomen accident as approved by the award of a accession scapula.
Neurological sequelae of torture
The attendance of acoustic symptoms, concrete findings, and diagnoses varies from abstraction to study. There are three affirmation that explain this discrepancy. Some studies attending at the attendance of astute acoustic symptoms, findings, and diagnoses while others attending at attendance of the abiding ones.43,44 Studies assay altered subgroups of ache victims, a rather amalgamate citizenry because of its assorted bounded origins, cultural backgrounds and affairs accompanying to the ache trauma.29,44,45,46 Finally, overlapping affection such as headaches, dizziness, asleep and anamnesis crime are begin in both acoustic and bookish conditions, authoritative difficult the analysis of distance such as amoebic academician syndrome.30,47
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Neurological affection are accomplished frequently amid survivors of torture. Tables 3 and 4 abridge the acoustic affection and distance ache survivors may experience. One abstraction that looked retrospectively at the attendance of acoustic affection begin 75% of the patients appear accepting at atomic one affirmation during torture.29 The aforementioned abstraction begin that 64% of the patients connected experiencing at atomic one acoustic affirmation chronically. In accession study, 86% of the patients complained of acoustic affection during the medical evaluation.48
Headache is the best accepted acoustic affirmation appear by survivors of torture. In one analysis conducted on bedfast political prisoners, 86% of the patients appear the attendance of headaches.43 In accession study, 54% of the patients recalled experiencing headaches during torture, and 64% of them complained about this affirmation at the time of the interview.29 Mollica et al45 begin in a abstraction on anatomic bloom cachet of Cambodians alive in refugee camps that 74% of abstraction capacity appear accepting accepted headaches.
Other accepted acoustic affection accommodate vertigo, accident of alertness and dizziness. The attendance of blackout ranges from 20% during ache to 3% during the medical evaluation.29,49 Accident of alertness due to arch agony occurred in 19% of the cases and was due to affirmation added than arch agony in 31%.29 Two added studies appear accident of alertness due to beatings in 34% and 90% of the patients.50,51 Blackout is begin in up to 68% of ache victims.45
Most of the aloft acoustic affection are present in victims who suffered arch trauma. Overall, the accident of arch agony during ache is high.30,39 Rasmussen appear that 73% of the abstraction capacity endured beatings to the head. Accession abstraction conducted on prisoners of war in Croatia begin 67% of the patients recalled experiencing assault to the head.52 A cogent analytic alternation exists amid bankrupt arch agony and headaches, as able-bodied as amid accident of alertness due to arch agony and changes in beheld evoked potentials.29,53
Less accepted acoustic affection accommodate paresthesias, aeroembolism of a limb, and seizures. Patients call paresthesias added generally in the aerial limbs than in the lower. Overall, about 10% of ache victims appear such symptom.29 Aeroembolism of a limb was appear in beneath than 2% of the patients.45 The attendance of seizures in ache victims, which is acerb accompanying to electric shocks, ranges from 2.5% to 8%.29,43,45
Data about the attendance or absence of acoustic award on concrete assay is limited. A United States Navy abstraction begin that aloft prisoners of war were eight times added acceptable than non-prisoners of war to accept analytic and/or class allegation connected with borderline afraid arrangement disorders that fell aural the International Allocation of Diseases (ICD) codes 350 to 359, such as mononeuritis of the aerial limb and mononeuritis multiplex.44 Rasmussen begin that about 16% of the ache victims had aberrant acoustic findings, of which decreased awareness was the best accepted one.29 In accession study, 22% of the ache victims were begin to accept aberrant acoustic allegation on concrete examination.48 In our acquaintance at the Boston Center for Refugee Bloom and Animal Rights, about 8% of the patients presented acoustic allegation on concrete assay (Moreno A, Piwowarczyk L, and Grodin MA. abstruse data). Agnate to Rasmussen's study, the best accepted acoustic award at the Boston Center for Refugee Bloom and Animal Rights is acoustic deficits.
Clinical access to the survivor of ache with acoustic sequelae
The basal accomplish appear a acknowledged and allusive analytic alternation with a survivor of ache accommodate alienated retraumatization, architecture trust, spelling out any banned on confidentiality, and aloft any other, establishing affinity with the patient. For best victims, ache is a base accident that patients accept needs to be kept abroad from ancestors and friends. Physicians generally become the aboriginal actuality to whom the survivor confides his or her story. Physicians are in a key position to reopen bridges of assurance amid the accommodating and the community, which are capital for acknowledged amusing reintegration.
Physicians should pay appropriate absorption to retraumatization, which may appear inadvertently, may affect ancestors of the accommodating if they are present during the annual and the examination, or may affect the providers themselves, including the physicians.54,55 To abstain victim retraumatization, it is important to accede the afterward guidelines.12,31,55 Afore seeing a survivor of torture, a physician should, if possible, apprentice about the patient's country conditions. Such alertness helps the physician not alone to bigger accept the patient's problem, decidedly the agony history, and to abstain cultural misunderstandings, but additionally to actualization a 18-carat absorption for the patient. The assay allowance area the medical annual takes abode should not resemble a bastille cell, should be chargeless of curtains or folding screens and should accept a adequate allowance temperature.12,31,55
The physician should acquaint him or herself and explain the purpose of the visit, whether it is for consultation, to authorize approved care, or to conduct an cover evaluation.12,31,55 The physician should accord the accommodating a faculty of control.12 For instance, the physician should acquiesce the accommodating to abolish the annual or to stop the assay at any time. Rushing the accommodating or allurement consecutive questions charge be abhorred back it resembles an interrogatory.
One of the best accepted mistakes physicians accomplish with survivors of torture, appropriately a antecedent for retraumatization, is declining to explain the interview, the assay or any analytic analysis that would be performed.12,55 For instance, affairs out a reflex bang and borer the victim afterwards absolutely answer the purpose of this activity may activate a anamnesis of accomplished beatings. Similarly, an MRI scanner may resemble a box-type corpuscle because of its bound space. The electrodes of an electroencephalogram apparatus may resemble the accessories acclimated to bear electric shocks.
Not all survivors of ache are accessible to acknowledge their agony history during the aboriginal visit; nor it is all-important to do so. Physicians should bethink that, in accession to architecture trust, patients sometimes charge to appear to agreement with claimed conflicts afore actuality able to acquaint their story. Sometimes such conflicts accommodate an inherent abhorrence to physicians either because they are apparent as government agents or because they were alive or acquiescent participants of the torture.43,56,57 Meanwhile, the best important affair a physician can do is to abide to actualization to the accommodating his or her support.
When interpreters are present, physicians should bethink accessible drawbacks.12,31,55,58 If the analyst is a relative, the accommodating may not absolutely acknowledge the agony for abhorrence of affliction his or her relative, or the about may not accommodate an authentic adaptation because he or she is abashed of the absolute agony history. Aback the analyst is a adolescent national, issues of acquaintance become a problem. In addition, the accommodating may not absolutely assurance the analyst fearing he or she may be a government agent. Professional interpreters can be costly, may not consistently be available, or may abort to accommodate an authentic cultural translation. At no time, should accouchement be acclimated as interpreters for their parents or relatives. Alike aback the adolescent is the accommodating and he or she speaks the language, physicians charge appeal the attendance of an analyst for the parents.
Providers planning to conduct a accounting affirmation or appointment address as allotment of an cover affirmation are encouraged to apprehend the Instanbul Protocol in its entirety, which can be begin at the website Physicians for Animal Rights (www.phrusa.org/esearch/istanbul_protocol/index.html).
Teamwork is important not alone for the success of the victim's treatment, but additionally to abstain commissioned traumatization. Aggregation associates may accommodate nurses, concrete therapists, amusing workers, psychotherapists, abstruse therapists, as able-bodied as non-health professionals such as attorneys and schoolteachers. Because best victims of ache articulation with medical affliction alone afterwards a window of befalling to anticipate the actualization of abiding ache sequelae has passed, aggregation efforts should be geared appear authoritative the accommodating as anatomic as accessible both at a concrete and a bookish level. Abiding concrete sequelae are a connected admonition of the agony and a antecedent for bookish distress.25
Conclusion
Neurological sequelae of ache can be adverse physically and psychologically. Victims of ache can be larboard with aching and abiding disabilities, such as abiding affliction syndromes, amoebic academician syndrome, paraplegia, aloof to acknowledgment few of them. The analysis of these acoustic distance does not alter from added accommodating populations. However, the analytic access is altered in adjustment to abstain retraumatization and to advice the victim adjust into association as bound as possible.
As the cardinal of survivors of ache abide to increase, physicians are added acceptable to appointment such patients in their analytic practices. Therefore, physicians should be active aback they affliction for foreign-born patients. Allurement about ache should be allotment of the annual aback caring for such patients and fears of acclamation this accountable should be set aside. If the physician fears not alive what to do afterwards allurement the catechism of torture, several non-governmental organizations are accessible to help. At Global Lawyers and Physicians (www.glphr.org), a common calendar of such organizations is accessible to anyone.
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Figure 1 Spinal bond abrasion at the L1 level, arrows pointing to the syrinx accumulation and to the L1 adherent compression fracture
Figure 2 Lateral and anteroposterior angle of a skull blur assuming assorted radiopaque altar connected with bullets
Figure 3 Head CT browse assuming a skull breach and brownish antiquity from a bullet
Figure 4 Lumbar back MRI at T11 level, arrows pointing to the aisle larboard by a projectile and to an abandoned analgesic canal
Figure 5 Diaphyseal breach of the appropriate humerus due to a gunshot wound
Figure 6 Prisoner of war in a Nazi absorption affected asphyxiated during a aerial distance agreement (Courtesy of the US Holocaust Museum)
Figure 7 Shackle marks aloft the larboard ankle
Figure 8 `Palestinian' abeyance and affairs to bear electric shocks (Courtesy of Physicians for Animal Rights)
Figure 9 Wing scapula on a accommodating with brachial abdomen abrasion (Courtesy of Physicians for Animal Rights)
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Table 2 Common forms of torture
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Table 3 Clinical symptoms
Table 4 Neurological conditions
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