Motor cycle spoke wheel injuries in children: a preventable accident

Reversing motor vehicle injuries: a preventable tragedy.

Bicycle and motorcycle wheel spoke injury in children.

PURPOSE To review bicycle and motorcycle wheel spoke injuries around the foot and ankle in 24 children. METHODS Medical records of 12 boys and 12 girls aged 2 to 11 (mean, 5.3) years who presented with an isolated posterior heel injury caused by wheel spokes of a motorcycle (n=9) or bicycle (n=15) were reviewed. RESULTS All 9 motorcycle injury patients and 8 of 15 bicycle injury patients ha...

A spoke in the wheel: calcium spikes disrupt yeast cell cycle.

A prerequisite of calcium signaling is the maintenance of cytoplasmic free Ca(2+) within a narrow, sub-micromolar range, compatible with cell viability. A variety of stress inducing agents and drugs can lead to a disruption of calcium homeostasis with ensuing toxicity. Amiodarone, an anti-arrhythmic drug with broad range microbicidal effect, has been shown to trigger a calcium burst in the yeas...

ocular injuries occurring in motor vehicular accident victims, yazd province.

introduction: motor vehicular accidents are one of the leading causes of death in young men and severe complications in all age groups. this study was carried out to evaluate eye injuries secondary to motor vehicular accidents that have a high rate of occurrence in yazd province. methods: this descriptive, cross- sectional study was conducted through case series method. simple sampling, i.e. ce...

Bicycle-spoke injuries of the foot in children.

PURPOSE To evaluate the characteristics of bicyclespoke injuries in a suburban Indian population. METHODS 30 male and 11 female children aged 4 to 12 (mean, 6) years with bicycle-spoke injuries were prospectively studied. Data collected included patient age, gender, position at the time of injury, site, type, and characteristics of the injury. According to the Oestern and Tscherne classificat...