Incidence of femoral shaft fracture was 1.33 fractures per 10,000 people in the US in 1994 [1]. The annual incidence of midshaft femur fractures, as shown by a Swedish study is approximately 10 per 100,000 person-years in 2009 [2]. The incidence peaks among the young, decreasing after age 20, and then again in the elderly. The annual Incidence in different published series has increased at 10% ...

Tracheal and bronchial injuries are life-threatening traumas that usually develop after traffic accidents or a fall from heights. The most common cause is motor vehicle accidents. Tracheobronchial injuries develop in 1% 2% of blunt thoracic traumas. The mortality rate is 30% in these patients and deaths usually occur within the first hours. Sixty five percent of surviving patients are diagnosed...

The results of a 10 year study of bicycle fatalities and an eight year study of serious non-fatalities are reported for urban Brisbane (population 1,000,000). There were 845 serious non-fatal bicycle accidents and 46 fatalities during the study. Boys were involved in 86% of accidents. Boys have an accident rate of 134.21 per 100,000 population at risk and a fatality rate of 5.06 per 100,000 at ...

OBJECTIVE To establish the number of fatal pedal cycle accidents occurring in the Sheffield and Barnsley area, UK, and to investigate the possible benefits of helmet wearing by cyclists. DESIGN All medicolegal investigations into fatal road traffic accidents in the areas of Sheffield and Barnsley (total population 757,300) were reviewed to identify cases in which pedal cyclists had died. The ...

Driving while fatigued is a serious risk-taking behavior among college students. Accident data were reviewed and a behavioral risk factor survey undertaken at a large private university. The findings indicated that 86 motor vehicle fatalities occurred among students at the university in the last 15 years. The authors estimated that falling asleep at the wheel may have caused 62 of these acciden...

OBJECTIVE to describe the victim profile and circumstances of transport accidents involving children and adolescents who were attended at a teaching hospital in the southern zone of the city of São Paulo. METHODS this was an individual observational case series study among patients up to the age of 19 years who were attended at a hospital in the southern zone of the city of São Paulo, state o...

Injured motor cycle messengers make up a small but significant proportion of the young injured attending Central London accident and emergency (A&E) departments. The study confirms that the pattern of their injuries is similar to other injured urban motor cyclists, and discusses the background of the injured, in terms of experience and training, highlighting the frequency of injury and possible...