According to the results of the statistical analysis on incident reports released by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, drug-related medical accidents account for more than half of all medical accidents. With respect to the causes of medical accidents, those caused by human carelessness, such as “incorrect drugs” or “incorrect drug dosages,” account for more than 40% of all me...

Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless and tasteless poisonous gas with a molecular weight similar to air in low concentrations. For this reason, CO, which also defined as the “silent killer”, one of most common causes fatal poisoning. Mortality depends on duration exposure CO its poisoning, still among leading poisonings world. Whether it for suicidal purposes or result accident, preve...

Drunkenness and/or hypoglycaemia are possible causes of unusual behavior in a person with diabetes. The aim of this study was to demonstrate different methods which were used in two contradictory reviews of experts for retrospective assessment of a patient's condition in the course of a car crash: An insulin-treated driver caused a car accident resulting in injuries to two men. He was accused o...

Hunting is a historically constructed cultural act and continues to be a passion and a popular recreational pastime worldwide. Along with a high population density in Europe and a large volume of hunters hunting injuries such as falls from hunting stands continue to occur regularly and are a significant cause of morbidity among hunters. The purpose of this study was to review typical injury pat...

We analyse the `probable cause' of the 1979 Chicago DC-10 accident using a minimal formalism, and find an omission. The omission is contained in the body of the report. This omission had consequences for the public discussion of this accident, which we show. We conclude that formalism helps in accident reporting by enabling simple consistency and omission checks. We then present a quick overvie...

All patients undergoing amputation at the Royal Victoria Hospital from August, 1969 to July, 1975 have been included. The 286 amputations were performed by the casualty, general, orthopaedic and vascular surgeons. They were divided into minor and major; minor amputations being the loss of one or more digits and major amputations those at a more proximal level. The causes were classified as civi...