fall injuries: an important preventable cause of trauma

Fall Injuries: An Important Preventable Cause of Trauma

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Fall is one of the most common causes of major injuries and responsible for many hospital admissions in Iran (1, 2). Falling may happen at any age, but children and the ...

Blunt abdominal trauma - An important cause of portal venous pseuodoaneurysm.

Aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms of the portal venous system are rarely seen following abdominal trauma but clinicians need to be aware of them as possible vascular complications following blunt trauma. This case report of a 10 year old boy following a handlebar injury demonstrates a clear causal relationship between trauma and portal venous pseudoaneurysm. Portal venous aneurysms have a prevalenc...

Addressing the most important preventable cause of death.

Hypocalcaemia and vitamin D deficiency: an important, but preventable, cause of life-threatening infant heart failure.

BACKGROUND In recent large paediatric cardiomyopathy population studies from North America and Australia, vitamin D deficiency was not identified as a cause of infant heart failure. However, rickets is resurgent in developed countries. OBJECTIVE To review the prevalence of this cardiomyopathy in paediatric cardiology units of southeast England and determine the prognosis. METHODS AND RESULT...

Preventable trauma deaths.

OBJECTIVE To describe methods of estimation and assess preventable deaths and types of errors related to health care. METHODS A systematic review of articles on preventable trauma deaths published between 2000 and 2009 was conducted. Lilacs, SciELO and Medline databases were searched using the keywords "trauma," "avoidable," "preventable," "interventions" and "complications" and the health sc...

Concomitant injuries are an important determinant of outcome of high-grade blunt hepatic trauma.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the clinical importance of concomitant injuries in polytraumatized patients with high-grade blunt liver injury. A retrospective single-centre study was performed to investigate the safety of non-operative management of liver injury and the impact of concomitant intra- and extra-abdominal injuries on clinical outcome. METHODS Some 183 patients with blunt liver ...