Medical Accidents

Road Accidents - Medical Aid

ROAD ACCIDENTS MEDICAL AID. By Hans Pacy. (Pp. 136; figs. 30. £1.00). Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1971. IT is commonplace to observe that the increasing numbers of deaths and disabling injuries due to accidents on our roads are the cause of concern to the public and the profession, and while much has been written on the subject of such injuries, and their treatment, in wellequipp...

Medical Accidents and the Responsibility of the Medical Community

Patient A, the woman who was having a child in this incident, was born in 1975 and get married in 1997. In July 2001, she gave birth to her first child at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, B Kosei Hospital by means of cesarean section. She conceived her second child in 2004. She visited early in May the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fukushima Prefectural Oono Hospital, and...

Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs

Dr. Meyers, who has been one of leading abdominal radiologists in the world for more than 30 years, has recently written a book entitled “Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs.” While I am reading the book, I feel an urge to introduce this book to all readers of the Korean Journal of Radiology. This book is based on a long experience and feeling on the modern medical brea...

[Medical aspects of preventing road traffic accidents].

Emergency medical helicopter operations for avalanche accidents.

BACKGROUND In the European Alps emergency medical helicopter services are regularly involved in avalanche rescue missions. How the helicopter emergency medical system best supports avalanche rescue missions is controversial. AIM OF THE STUDY To study advantages and limitations of the early dispatch of emergency medical helicopters after avalanche accidents. METHODS Data on rescue mission ch...