BACKGROUND Little information is available to guide the selection, preparation, and support of a traveling team physician. PURPOSE To determine the types of injuries and medical problems, as well as general team health and performance issues, encountered by physicians traveling internationally with youth national soccer teams. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive epidemiology. METHODS Physicians assi...

Severe caustic injury to the gastrointestinal tract carries a high risk of luminal strictures. The aim of this retrospective study was to identify predicting factors for progress of caustic injury to gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) and esophageal strictures (ES), using modified endoscopic mucosal injury grading scale. We retrospectively reviewed medical records of patients with caustic injurie...

Radiology plays a major role in emergency medicine, both for diagnosis and for interventional management. Emergencies that require immediate interventional radiology as a life-saving procedure can be divided into traumatic and non-traumatic. Injuries can involve the thorax (for example, rupture of thoracic aorta), smaller arteries (such as the intercostals arteries), upper and lower extremities...

Gastrointestinal injuries that occur during or after laparoscopic and robot-assisted surgery are serious side effects that affect patient outcome. In this review, we attempt to highlight the identification, incidence and management of gastrointestinal and visceral complications of laparoscopic and robot-assisted surgery. A search of Medline and PubMed databases was performed using the following...

The analysis of diseases and injuries in the workers on an American oil rig, operating in the Mediterranean Sea, was done in the period of one year, from 1 May 1996 to 1 May 1997. In total, 518 medical examinations of sick and injuried workers were conducted. At the first place in morbidity, there were injuries and poisonings (26.7% of all registered cases). Then followed musculo-skeletal (17.5...