road traffic accidents and the effects they subsequently incur are increasing dramatically, and estimating the cost of road traffic crashes could be a vital step in improving the recognition of this widespread problem. the main objective of this paper is to estimate the cost of road traffic crashes in iran using the human capital (hc) method. results of this study indicate that the cost of road...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe fatal childhood injury patterns in an urban county and evaluate the use of the emergency medical services system. DESIGN Retrospective chart review of medical examiner files, prehospital and hospital records, and police and fire personnel reports. SETTING Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, an urban county with a population of approximately 1 million. PARTICIPANTS All...

As part of a comprehensive study of brain damage in 635 fatal non-missile head injuries, the type and prevalence of brain damage occurring in the absence of high intracranial pressure were analysed. Of 71 such cases, 53 sustained their injury as a result of a road traffic accident; only 25 experienced a lucid interval. Thirty eight had a fractured skull, a mean total contusion index of 12.9 and...

BACKGROUND Serious injuries have been stated as a public health priority in the UK. However, there appears to be a lack of information on population-based rates of serious injury (as defined by a recognised taxonomy of injury severity) at national level from either official statistics or research papers. We aim to address this through a search and review of literature primarily focused within t...

Abstract Background Internal carotid artery (ICA) injury is a hazardous catastrophe for the skull base surgery team. We aimed to illustrate vital joints in this event during endoscopic surgery. Main text The condition rare (1.1%) but fatal per se. Working field of not free charges. It demands thorough knowledge anatomy, variations, and pathoanatomy expect what can be seen thereafter. Once occur...

Fatal and near-fatal maulings of humans by pit bulls have recently become a topic of major public concern, resulting in the passage of laws in some jurisdictions that make the owner of a pit bull criminally liable for manslaughter if his or her pet causes a human death. The authors recently investigated two cases in which children were fatally injured by pet dogs. In the first case, a 17-day-ol...

Background. Duodenum injury is extremely rare complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy with potentially fatal consequences. Methods. Over the past 13-year period, 3000 laparoscopic cholecystectomies were performed in our institution. Duodenum injury only occurred in one patient recently who had undergone gastrectomy owing to duodenal diverticulum. The diagnosis and management of this rare c...

THE following cases have been selected from the files of the Division of Neuropathology in the University of Toronto to illustrate the types of head injury which may cause death from meningitis. The fatal infection of the meninges may occur at the time of the injury, killing the patient within a few days or weeks of the accident, but its onset may be delayed for years after the head injury. Thr...

BACKGROUND Fatal and non-fatal injuries are of increasing public health concern globally, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Injuries sustained by individuals also impact society, creating a loss of productivity with serious economic consequences. In Sudan, there is no documentation of the burden of injuries on individuals and society. METHODS A community-based survey was perfor...