Walking aids such as rollators help a lot of individuals to maintain mobility and independence. While these devices clearly improve balance and mobility they also lead to increased risk of falling accidents. With an increasing proportion of elderly in the population, there is a clear need for improving these devices. This paper describes ongoing work on the development of ROAR an intelligent ro...

BACKGROUND The increase in mortality and morbidity of traumatized patients in developing countries might be due to disorganized medical services and credit tightness. This study was designed to describe the characteristics of injury, the strategies for the trauma prevention, and to improve the healthcare system.  METHODS This was part of a national research project about trauma, conducted in ...

INTRODUCTION Trauma due to accidents or fall from height is a major cause of disability and mortality. The present study was designed aiming to evaluate the baseline characteristics of fall from height victims presenting to emergency department (ED). METHODS This prospective cross-sectional study evaluates the baseline characteristics of fall from height cases presenting to EDs of three educa...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency of inpatient falls and to evaluate the risk factors of drugs in an academic hospital. The study population consisted of inpatients at Ehime University Hospital in Japan and the study was conducted from April 1st to October 31st, 2006. Children and teenagers (<18 years old) were excluded. Inpatient falls were registered regularly with in...

Falls are serious health problems among older adults, and are the leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injuries treated by emergency medical services (EMS). Although considerable research has examined the risk factors of falls at the individual level, relatively few studies have addressed the risk factors at the neighborhood level. This study examines the characteristics of neighborhood environm...

In this article, improved bounds for (kn)! and the factorial polynomial are obtained using Kober’s inequality and Lagrange’s identity.

This is a study on the development of education and training scenarios to enable fire safety managers improve their response-ability. Based 10 accidents that occurred in Korea, we analyzed response problems recognition, situation propagation, 119 reports, evacuation guidance, initial extinguishing. We derived by designing sample scenario events based failure factors observed from for developmen...

Objective: The aim of present study was to carry out a retrospective analysis types and causes ENT injuries in pediatric age group. Patients Methods: We carried 40 children up the 14 years with managed department period from March 2019 April 2021. Results: total number patients it comprised 31 males (77.5%) 9 females (22.5%). Twelve (30%) were under 5 years, 14(35%) 6-10 (35%) group 11–14 yea...

INTRODUCTION Horse riding, with almost 200,000 participants, is the eighth most popular sport in Sweden. Severe injuries can occur with horse riding accidents which is well documented. This study was undertaken to investigate if injuries associated with horse riding are common, which type of injuries occur, what mechanisms are involved and to estimate the costs to the society. MATERIAL AND ME...