An evaluation of dental and maxillofacial trauma in a level 1 trauma center in Israel was carried out to assess the causes of trauma and the relationship between the injuries to the patient's age, gender and ethnicity. Analysis was based on data from the Israel Trauma Registry. Patients hospitalized in a level 1 trauma center from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2005 were analyzed according to ...

45% of all hospitalized burn casualties in Israel are children younger than 16 years old. In various hospitals they make up 30-60% of all burn casualties, depending on the proportion of children in the area of hospital intake, social and economic factors and the type of hospital. Length of hospitalization of children is shorter than that of the general population (7.3 vs 9.0 days). Scalding is ...

Head injuries are commonly seen in accident and emergency (A&E) departments and within this group a small proportion will have a temporal bone fracture. Thirty-four such cases were identified from a 7-year period and their case notes were reviewed. The mechanisms of injury included:falls outdoors (15 cases), falls in the home (eight cases), road traffic accidents (RTAs; seven cases), missiles (...

Highway tunnel traffic safety is an important part of safety. With the aging tunnels, increase in flow, changes operating environment and accidents, many problems started to occur affecting operational structural In this paper, we summarize analyze types causes defects found process maintenance at home abroad, propose corresponding suggestions for current main structure highway tunnels.

Early guidance emphasizes the provision of information to families about growth and normal development in childhood such as specific information about security at home. This research aimed to analyze mothers' knowledge about the prevention of accidents in childhood before and after an educational intervention. It was conducted as a quasi-experimental study with 155 mothers in a Basic Health Uni...

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the effect first aid training program on self-efficacy mothers with disabled children in home accidents.
 
 Material and Methods: This quasi-experimental one-group pretest-post-test conducted 44 mothers. Mothers were given education sessions. data collected using an informed consent form, introductory information Self-efficacy scale for ...

INTRODUCTION At the present stage of progress by chemical industry it may appear needless to fear from the toxic nature of hausehold products so common through their use; and yet acute intoxication fairly often occurs especially in children ( one to four years old) who escape their parents eye and swallow anything they find at home. The seriousness of intoxication by home products can be assess...

We consider the problem of assisting vulnerable people and their carers to reduce the occurrence, and concomitant consequences, of accidents in the home. A wireless sensor network employing multiple sensing and event detection modalities and distributed processing is proposed for smart home monitoring applications. Distributed vision-based analysis is used to detect occupant’s posture, and feat...

OBJECTIVES To analyze and to compare clinical repercussions of accidents involving legally and illegally commercialized household sanitizers in children under 7 years of age. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional design was used to collect data from electronic database of a regional Poison Control Center during one year. Data were analyzed by means of descriptive non-parametric statistics and...

BACKGROUND Studies have found a high prevalence of both alcohol and other impairing psychoactive drugs in injured patient populations. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of potentially impairing psychoactive substances in all patients admitted to a hospital emergency department with injuries from accidents, assault or deliberate self harm. METHODS A total of 1272 patients over...