OBJECTIVE To describe injuries and outcomes among children who fall from a height DESIGN Prospective, convenience hospital based study. SETTING Paediatric surgical wards of Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, from November 2006 to February 2007. SUBJECTS Children aged 1-13 years who sustained injuries after failing from any height. RESULTS Eighty children were recruited. There were 61 ...

Prior pure hip dislocation in its obturator variety is exceptional. It still reflects a high-energy trauma and may compromise the functional prognosis of the hip secondary necrosis of the femoral head. It is reported the case of a patient who, following an accident on the highway, presented a pure anterior obturator hip dislocation. The dislocation was reduced under general anaesthesia in an em...

A two-year-old Thoroughbred colt was presented to the Equine Clinic, Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital for head trauma after rearing and falling backwards, hitting his head on the ground. Following medical therapy for acute onset neurological impairment secondary to a suspected basilar skull fracture, the horse was anaesthetised and computed tomography of the skull was performed. A dia...

Chongqing Bus falling into the river shocked whole country. In order to find out whether Coriolis illusion is one of real causes river, mechanism acceleration studied, and corresponding analysis phenomenon caused by carried out. The driver's head in modelled calculated. It concluded that effect can be ignored when object's motion speed low, is, main cause not illusion.

The present paper investigates the influence of stabilization with cement, peat ash, and silica sand on permeability coefficient (kv) of compacted clay, using a novel approach to stabilize the clay with peat ash as a supplementary material of cement in the compacted and stabilized soil. In order to assess the mentioned influence, test specimens of both untreated and stabilized soil have been te...

Flightless animals have evolved diverse mechanisms to control their movements in air, whether falling with gravity or propelling against it. Many insects jump as a primary mode of locomotion and must therefore precisely control the large torques generated during takeoff. For example, to minimize spin (angular momentum of the body) at takeoff, plant-sucking bugs apply large equal and opposite to...

Trauma in elderly patients is often difficult to evaluate and neck injuries are probably more common than is documented. A case is described of a missed odontoid peg fracture with the unusual presentation of dysphagia and a rapidly developing cervicodorsal kyphos (head falling forward), which may well have been anticipated at several points in the management chain. The lessons to be learned are...