Objective: To compare the length of hospital stay, duration chest tube drainage use, conversion to open thoracotomy and post-injury infections between Early VATS Late groups.
 Study Design: Cross-sectional comparative study.
 Place Duration Study: Department surgery Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Oct 2020 till Sep 2022.
 Methodology: Sixty-two patients undergo...

BACKGROUND Limited information is available on the variation in injury rates over multiple seasons of professional football. AIM To analyse time-trends in injury characteristics of male professional football players over 11 consecutive seasons. METHODS A total of 1743 players comprising 27 teams from 10 countries were followed prospectively between 2001 and 2012. Team medical staff recorded...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of a change in skull x ray policy on the rate of admission, use of computed tomography (CT), radiation dose per head injury, and detection of intracranial injuries; and to compare the characteristics of patients with normal and abnormal head CT. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING UK paediatric teaching hospital emergency department. PATIENTS 1535 pa...

Authors’ Response: In our recent paper titled ‘‘Injury Rate and Patterns Among CrossFit Athletes,’’ the use of the term injury rate was questioned. Specifically, the reader queried whether our use of the term referred to incidence or prevalence. We appreciate the reader’s thoughtful comments and agree that this point deserves further clarification. In our study, we described injury rate as a me...

OBJECTIVE To track changes of the burden and trends of childhood injury mortality among children aged 0-14 years in China from 2004 to 2011. DESIGN National representative data from the Chinese Disease Surveillance Points system and Chinese Maternal and Child Mortality Surveillance system from 2004 to 2011 were used. Rates and 95% CIs of aged-standardised mortality, as well as the proportions...