crush injury of an extremity occurs when a limb is compressed between two hard surfaces, to the point where vascular supply is impaired and vulnerable tissues undergo necrosis. most commonly, limbs are crushed during auto versus pedestrian accidents, motor vehicle crashes, and industrial accidents. however, during natural disasters such as earthquakes, buildings collapse, landslides, mine cave-...

In this paper, we obtain detailed data on road traffic crash (RTC) casualties, by severity, for each of the eight state and territory jurisdictions for Australia and use these to estimate and compare the economic impact of RTCs across these regions. We show that the annual cost of RTCs in Australia, in 2003, was approximately Dollars 17 b, which is approximately 2.3% of the Gross Domestic Produ...

INTRODUCTION Difficulties have been reported in the patient distribution during Mass Casualty Incidents. In this study we analysed the regional patient distribution protocol (PDP) and the actual patient distribution after the 2009 Turkish Airlines crash near Amsterdam. METHODS Analysis of the patient distribution of 126 surviving casualties of the crash by collecting data on medical treatment...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the socio-demographic characteristics and medical causes of death among meteorological disaster casualties and compared them with deaths from all causes. METHODS Based on the death data provided by the National Statistical Office from 2000 to 2011, the authors analyzed the gender, age, and region of 709 casualties whose external causes were recorded as natur...

The aim is to develop a robust methodology for dispatching and routing of emergency vehicles (EVs) in a post-disaster environment with the support of data fusion for decision-making. In this work we consider an earthquake scenario with a large number of casualties needing medical attention. With the influx of information (about the casualties, road and traffic conditions, etc.) data is fused to...

PROBLEM Prevention of injuries to child passengers is a significant public health priority, as motor vehicle-related injuries remain a leading cause of death for children in Japan. The purpose of compulsory child restraint seats legislation in April 2000 was to reduce the number of child passengers killed or injured in motor vehicle crashes. METHODS The objectives of this preliminary evaluati...

BACKGROUND In 2008, we showed that incomplete or delayed extremity fasciotomies were associated with mortality and muscle necrosis in war casualties with limb injury. Subsequently, we developed an education program focused on surgeon knowledge gaps regarding the diagnosis of compartment syndrome and prophylactic fasciotomy. The program included educational alerts, classroom training, video inst...

Traffic accidents on urban roads are a major cause of death despite the development traffic safety measures. However, prediction casualties in road has not been deeply explored previous research. Effective forecasting methods for can improve manner accident warnings, further avoiding unnecessary loss. This paper provides practicable model forecast problems, which ten variables, including time c...

Traffic safety is one of the key issues nowadays, given fact that a large number people lose their lives in traffic accidents every day. There are various influential factors occurrence accidents, vehicles being them. This paper assesses Montenegro period 1998-2020 by applying multiphase modeling with purpose to obtain comparative results which enable implementation adequate strategies. A total...