OBJECTIVE To determine the distribution and scope of nurse practitioner schemes in accident and emergency departments in England and Wales; to describe the caseloads of doctors and nurse practitioners on two representative days; and to estimate the number of patients managed by nurse practitioners in the year to 31 March 1991. DESIGN A postal survey of accident and emergency departments and a...

In order to evaluate the construction accident risk, a novel method integrating principal component analysis (PCA) and the unascertained number algorithm with the synthesis weights is presented. According to humanmachine engineering, the multi-index and hierarchical system of accident risk in construction projects was built. PCA is applied to find relevant factors of the accident risk, which ar...

This study introduces the accident research system integrated with the medical and engineering network in Japan. Based on the collaborative study by Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI), Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokuso Hospital and ITARDA (Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis), detailed accident data have been collected, and crash, vehicle damage, and injury data w...

this report presents a case of vertebral artery dissection (vad), which was misdiagnosed as cerebrovascular accident (cva) in initial examinations.in this case, a 33-year old woman, who was involved in a car accident, was referred to khoy legal medicine centre by traffic court two months after the accident.the patient was examined by the author, who was on an assignment at the centre.at this ti...

Introduction: The effects of accidents vary from minor injuries to fatalities and from insignificant damage to severe damage to the environment and property. In order to prevent accidents in the work place, the root causes of and events should be identified using a systematic method and the results should be published. The current study aims to investigate the given causes of an accident in ord...

Background: The paper points out the present limited possibility of using the verbal description of injuries for the needs of experts from the field of road transportation as relevant criminalistics traces, as well as the options of the FORTIS system that creates a new area for a deeper interdisciplinary approach in the field of expert evidence. Further a description of how to create injury si...

purpose : to report a case of purtscher retinopathy associated with valsalva retinopathy after car accident methods : a 54-year-old man presented with a sudden visual loss in his left eye after car accident. fundus examination of the left eye showed cotton-wool spots and retinal hemorrhages in the posterior pole associated with subhyaloid hemorrhage in macula. results : fundus examination showe...