Non-fatal injuries have a significant impact on disability, productivity, and economic cost, and first-aid can play an important role in improving non-fatal injury outcomes. Data collected from a census conducted as part of a drowning prevention project in Bangladesh was used to quantify the impact of first-aid provided by trained and untrained providers on non-fatal injuries. The census covere...

BACKGROUND Transfusion related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a potentially fatal Acute Lung Injury following transfusion of blood components. Hypotheses implicate donor-derived anti-human leukocyte antigen or granulocyte antibodies reacting with recipients' leukocytes, releasing inflammatory mediators. Lack of agreement on underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms renders improving transfusio...

RESEARCH QUESTION What is the pattern of injuries among non-fatal cases of road traffic accidents? OBJECTIVE To study the pattern of injuries among non-fatal cases of road traffic accidents. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Nagpur, a city in central India. PARTICIPANTS 423 non-fatal cases of road traffic accidents reporting for treatment to Indira Gandhi Medical College, Nagp...

AIM Fatal triad and ipsilateral dyad are patterns of pedestrian injuries related to significant mortality in traffic-related accidents. The aim of this research was to investigate the correlation between specific injury patterns and fatal outcome in other participants of traffic-related accidents. METHODS This was a retrospective study of traffic-related accidents in the broader area of the c...

AIM To determine the burden and characteristics of fatal and hospitalised injuries among youth in Fiji. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the Fiji Injury Surveillance in Hospitals database - a prospective population-based trauma registry - to examine the incidence and epidemiological characteristics associated with injury-related deaths and hospital admissions among youth age...

objective: to determine the epidemiological characteristics of fatal traumatic accidents in patients referred to a hospital in babol, northern iran. methods: thiswas a cross-sectionalstudy being performed during a 1-year period including all the dead trauma patients referred to shahidbeheshtihospital of babol. we included all those patients who were transferred to our center to trauma and injur...

Background and Objectives: Road accidents are regarded as one of the most critical global health issues. In Iran, road accidents are the second cause of death, followed by cardiovascular diseases. The present study was conducted with the aim of the epidemiological evaluation of deaths caused by road accidents in Torbat Heydariyeh City, Iran, between 2013 and 2017. Methods: This is a cross-sec...

BACKGROUND It remains unclear if fatal brain injuries in young children are characterized by immediate rapid deterioration or can present after an initial period of lucidity. This issue has legal implications in child abuse, for which understanding the clinical course affects perpetrator identification. OBJECTIVE To determine patterns of neurologic presentation on hospital admission in infant...

Missed injuries and delayed diagnosis are still common problems in the treatment of trauma patients especially, polytrauma. Diaphragmatic quite one most important missed injuries. It can result from either blunt or penetrating trauma. Traumatic diaphragmatic (TDI) may go unnoticed initially later present as life-threatening conditions. Here we such a case fatal injury, which was diagnosed durin...