BackgroundAim: Road traffic accident (RTA)-related injuries may cause morbidity and mortality in childhood. We aimed to investigate these terms of affected body regions, time the accident, gender, age, determine factors affecting mortality, evaluate casualties' demographic features discharge status. Methods: This retrospective cohort study included patients aged under 18 years who were victims ...

We present a method for providing response-time guarantees for multimedia traffic in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. The method extends our ResponseTime Analysis (RTA) for ATM networks to better capture the behaviour of MPEG-type multimedia traffic. RTA is intended for admission control of hard real-time traffic, i.e., it determines if a new connection can be admitted without violati...

OBJECTIVE To describe the emergency care of injuries at a main city hospital. DESIGN A prospective study. SETTING Data were collected between February 1st, 1999 and 30th April, 1999 from the records of the 2000 bed Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Nairobi, Kenya. SUBJECTS Two hundred and forty injury patients admitted at KNH were analysed. METHODS All patients were analysed for demog...

A descriptive analysis of road traffic accident (RTA) and injury data in Kenya was done using routine accident reports, official statistical abstracts, published and unpublished surveys. The characteristics of injury-producing accidents examined included trends, distribution patterns, risk factors, types of vehicles involved, and road-users injured or killed. The numbers killed increased by 578...

Searching for sustainable regional trade agreements (RTAs) for East Asia, we quantitatively evaluated the likely impact of proposed East Asian RTA strategies─(i) the AFTA (a being-leftalone strategy), (ii) an ASEAN Hub RTA (a hub-and-spoke type of overlapping RTA strategy), (iii) the AFTA vs a China-Japan-Korea RTA (a duplicating or competing RTA strategy), (iv) an ASEAN+3 RTA (an expansionary ...

More people die in road accidents in India than anywhere else in the world [1]. India has 1% of the world’s vehicles, but 6% of the total global RTA deaths [2]. The statistical profile reflects a global estimate of 5.1 million deaths in 2000, due to injuries, accounting for 10% of deaths due to all causes. Out of this a quarter deaths occurred in the South-East Asian region [1]. In fact, road t...

Searching for sustainable regional trade agreements (RTAs) for East Asia, we quantitatively evaluated the likely impact of proposed East Asian RTA strategies─(i) the AFTA (a being-leftalone strategy), (ii) an ASEAN Hub RTA (a hub-and-spoke type of overlapping RTA strategy), (iii) the AFTA vs a China-Japan-Korea RTA (a duplicating or competing RTA strategy), (iv) an ASEAN+3 RTA (an expansionary ...

Background: Road traffic accidents are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide major sudden deaths in Sri Lanka.Methods: This study was conducted to assess risk factors for RTAs using 360 injured drivers, admitted the accident wards two teaching hospitals Kandy Kurunegala interviewer-administered questionnaires.Results: The majority population (97%) male most drivers were 26-35...

BACKGROUND Emergencies such as road traffic accidents (RTAs), acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and cerebrovascular accident (CVA) are the most common causes of death and disability in India. Robust emergency medicine (EM) services and proper education on acute care are necessary. In order to inform curriculum design for training programs, and to improve the quality of EM care in India, a bette...