Introduction: The number of traumatic spinal cord injuries associated with a fracture is on rise which compounded by in motor vehicle accidents the country. aim study was to assess frequency, cause, pattern, and demographic profile Bhutanese population. Methods: A retrospective conducted at National Referral Hospital from 2018 2020. records patients, treated for injury were reviewed. Results: O...

introduction: to the best of authors’ knowledge, to date, no systematic study has been carried out in shiraz to assess the extent, frequency, causes and major outcome(s) of home accidents in rural and urban areas of this city. additionally, no comparative study has been undertaken to evaluate the trend of these accidents over a period of time, and finally, the morbidity and mortality rates of t...

Slips, trips, and falls (STFs) are the number one cause of injuries in the workplace and happen in all types of work environments. According to federal OSHA, slips, trips, and falls cause 15 percent of all workplace deaths and are second only to motor vehicles as a cause of fatalities. STFs can result in head injuries, back injuries, broken bones, cuts and lacerations, sprained muscles, or even...

Prior to developing any specific fall detection algorithm, it is critical to distinguish the unique motion features associated with fall accidents. The current study aimed to investigate the upper trunk angular kinematics during slip-induced backward falls and activities of daily living (ADLs). Ten healthy older adults (age = 75 ± 6 yr (mean ± SD)) were involved in a laboratory study. Sagittal ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse data from existing sources to assess the distribution over space and time of home accidents in Piedmont. DESIGN Analysis of distribution of causes of hospitalisation and deaths following a home accident. SETTING For non-fatal accidents, we reviewed the database of hospital discharge records (HDR), which includes data from all hospitals in the region. For fatal accidents...

An Integrative Literature Review was conducted in order to evaluate the scientific knowledge produced regarding quality of life of the elderly who have suffered falls. Published articles between 1999 and 2009 were selected from the LILACS, CINAHL and MEDLINE databases, and the following search words in Portuguese, English and Spanish were used: quality of life, the elderly and accidents involvi...

INTRODUCTION Trauma is the fifth principal cause of death in Singapore, with traumatic brain injury (TBI) being the leading specific subordinate cause. METHODS This study was an eight-year retrospective review of the demographic profiles of patients with severe TBI who were admitted to the neurointensive care unit (NICU) of the National Neuroscience Institute at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singap...

This cross-sectional, descriptive study identified 857 head-injured patients who were admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) over a four-year period. Their median age (IQR) was 28 (16, 45) years and 629 (73.5%) were males. Median length of hospital stay (IQR) was 2 (1, 6) days. Median ICU stay in the intensive care unit (IQR) was 6 (2, 12) days for the 59 (6.9%) patients ...

AIMS To investigate the relationship of different patterns of alcohol intake to various types of trauma. METHODS We examined the associations of alcohol consumption in a series of 385 consecutive trauma admissions (278 men, 107 women, age range 16-49 years). Patients underwent clinical examinations, structured interviews on the amount and pattern of alcohol intake, and measurements of blood a...

BACKGROUND Pelvic fracture is one of the major injuries that lead to death in patients who sustain high-impact injuries such as road traffic accidents and falls from height. AIMS This study aims to look at the epidemiology and the significant predictors of mortality in victims with pelvic fracture presenting to the emergency department (ED) of an urban Asian city. METHODS This was a retrosp...