Perioperative personnel who are involved in surgical procedures are exposed to a significant amount of blood and bloody fluids, which may be infected with hepatitis C, hepatitis B, or HIV. Surgical procedures require the use of many sharp instruments, so OR personnel are at an increased risk of sustaining percutaneous injuries, glove tears, and skin and mucous membrane contamination. Many surgi...

purpose: to determine factors that affect and predict final visual acuity, retinal attachment, and ocular survival after open-globe injuries. methods: one-hundred sixteen eyes with open globe injuries were evaluated longitudinally from september 2001to february 2004. age, sex, involved eye, best corrected visual acuity (bcva), afferent pupillary defect (apd), size and location of laceration, ca...

Background: Cut throat injury is an incised wound in the neck that may be superficial or deep and usually caused by sharp objects. These wounds from homicide, suicide, accidental. Aims Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess cut terms age, sex, site injury, triggering factors for suicidal injury. Materials Methods: This retrospective carried out Department ENT, Rajendra Institute Me...

Technical limitations in image capturing usually impose defective, such as contrast degradation. There are different approaches to improve the contrast of an image. Among the exiting approaches, un-sharp masking is a popular method due to its simplicity in implementation and computation. There is an important parameter in un-sharp masking, named gain factor, which affects the quality of the enh...

Objective: Evaluation of the epidemiological and clinical features pediatric open globe injury. 
 Methods: Medical records 51 patients under age 18 who presented to emergency department with injury (OGI) between 2009 2021 were evaluated retrospectively. Patient demographics, Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology (BETT) category, ocular trauma score (POTS), visual acuity (VA), site injury, seas...

Between 2010 and 2019, there were 112,230 deaths by suicide in Brazil, with a 43% increase the annual number of deaths, from 9,454 to 13,523 2019 (1). In this paper, case victim self-harm sharp instrument will be reported, which caused cardiac tamponade evolved death, on spot, cause death: cardiogenic shock. Reviewing cadaveric report, obtained at Instituto Médico Legal de Sergipe, order unders...

Needle stick injuries are a common event in the healthcare setting. When drawing blood, administering an intramuscular or intravenous drug, performing other procedures involving sharps, needle can slip and injure worker. This sets stage to transmit viruses from source person recipient. These also commonly occur during recapping as result of failure place used needles approved sharps containers....

cardiac rupture, particularly rupture of the left ventricular wall, has a very high mortality rate. in this occasion, even if injured patients being alive when carried to the hospital, many of them will die due to following possible reasons: severe bleeding, cardiac tamponade, wasting time for routine and usual diagnostic procedures or transferring the injured to other hospital equipped for car...