Falls from high places, such as from a building, are frequently encountered in suicides, in some accidents, and sometimes in homicides. In this study, we evaluated the demographic data, mortality rates, fall causes, and post-mortem findings of individuals who fell from heights. Our cases were collected retrospectively from the files of the Branch of the Council of Forensic Medicine in Diyarbaki...

background : falls are important causes of mortality and morbidity in urban areas and put a high burden on societies. we investigated patterns of fall traumas and related factors in a referral trauma hospital in tehran, iran. methods: in this routine-data-based study, all documents of fall cases in hazrate-rasool hospital, tehran, iran, during october 2014-2015 were investigated. information on...

BACKGROUND To establish the characteristics of patients in pediatric age who have been referred to hand rehabilitation center since 1998. METHODS The patients were screened retrospectively and those within 0-16 age range were included into the study (178 patients; 126 males [70.8%], 52 females [29.2]; mean age 10.33+/-4.45; range 0 to 16 years). Demographic data, causes and locations of injur...

Poisoning in childhood 55 Accidental child poisoning 55 Deliberate self-poisoning in older children 56 Non-accidental poisoning 56 Treatment of child poisoning 56 Chronic poisoning 57 Notes on poisoning with individual substances 58 Unintentional injuries 60 Defi ning injuries 60 Sources of data on injury 60 Mortality data 60 Morbidity data 61 Hospital admission data 61 Emergency department dat...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to identify the characteristic neuroimaging (namely brain CT) as well as physical findings found in young children with nonaccidental traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to compare them with accident cases of the similar age group, in order to study the specific features of the former group more precisely. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross sectional study was...

INTRODUCTION In countries where most deaths are outside health institutions and medical certification of death is absent, verbal autopsy (VA) method is used to estimate population level causes of death. METHODS VA data were collected by trained lay interviewers for 409 deaths in the surveillance site. Two physicians independently assigned cause of death using the International Classification ...

Background: Falls are common internationally among the elderly. This study examined domiciliary environmental risk factors attributable to accidental falls among community-living older persons living in highrise buildings in Hong Kong. Methods: Over the preceding 6 months, 592 older persons were recruited from a housing resource center for baseline assessments. Among them, 456 participants comp...

According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, falls are the leading cause of injury related visits to emergency departments in the United States and the primary etiology of accidental deaths in persons over the age of 65 years. By age 75, the mortality rate increases dramatically and accounts for 70 percent of accidental deaths. One third of community-dwelling elderly persons and 60 p...

We investigate decaying D-branes as the origin of the thermal string gas of string gas cosmology. We consider initial configurations of low-dimensional branes and argue that they can time evolve to thermal string gas. We find that there is a range in the weak string coupling and fast brane decay time regimes, where the initial configuration could drive the evolution of the dilaton to values, wh...