BACKGROUND The act of deliberate injury to one's own body without the help of others is a well-known phenomenon in psychiatric patients. Insertion of foreign bodies into one or more orifices is not uncommon but insertion into a body cavity or the gastrointestinal tract by self-inflicted injury is quite rare. CASE PRESENTATION A 32-year-old Ethiopian psychiatric patient presented with left low...

BACKGROUND Fluid resuscitation following traumatic injury causes haemodilution and can contribute to coagulopathy. Coagulation factor replacement may be necessary to prevent bleeding complications of dilutional coagulopathy. Compared with fresh frozen plasma (FFP), prothrombin complex concentrate (PCC) may potentially offer a more rapid and effective means of normalizing coagulation factor leve...

BACKGROUND Although self-inflicted and assault-induced knife injuries might have different mortality and morbidity rates, no studies have actually evaluated the importance of the cause of knife injuries in terms of patient outcomes and treatment strategies. OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to assess the difference between the outcomes of patients presenting with self-inflicted stab woun...

During a 5-year period, out of 110066 children with injuries recorded in the Greek Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System (EDISS), 91 had firework-related injuries. Descriptive analyses and the Barrell matrix were used to determine risk factors and extrapolated national firework childhood injury figures were calculated. The estimated annual incidence of childhood firework injuries trea...

In November 1999, in the United Kingdom, a woman was convicted of the murder of her two infant sons. An appeal against the conviction was dismissed in October 2000, but the conviction was quashed by a second court of appeal in January 2003. Review of the autopsy findings showed that standard procedures had not always been followed, thus limiting verification of the alleged findings. Some potent...

High sensitivity and reactivity to behaviors of family members characterizes several forms of psychopathology, including self-inflicted injury (SII). We examined mother-daughter behavioral and psychophysiological reactivity during a conflict discussion using nonlinear dynamics to assess asymmetrical associations within time-series data. Depressed, SII, and control adolescents and their mothers ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To measure socioeconomic differences in injuries among different age groups of children and adolescents. SUBJECTS Children under 20 living in Sweden between 1990 and 1994 (about 2.6 million). METHOD A cross sectional study based on record linkage between 15 Swedish national registers. Children were divided into four age groups and allocated to four household socioeconomic st...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Although much is known about injury-related deaths from the use of external cause of injury codes (ecodes) on death certificates, the contribution of nonfatal injury is unknown, with most information based on estimates from national surveys. Some states mandate ecoding of charts for hospitalized patients, but few require ecode assignment for emergency department (ED) records. Mi...