OBJECTIVES This study expands previous research comparing injury risk for women and men in a cohort of 24,000 US aluminium manufacturing workers in 15 facilities from 2001 to 2010. METHODS We compared injury rates (all injury, first aid, medical treatment, restricted work and lost work time) by sex and by job and sex. Using a mixed effect modelling approach, we calculated ORs and 95% CIs adju...

OBJECTIVE To determine the current level of knowledge of first aid for a burn injury and sources of this knowledge among the general population of New South Wales. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS People aged 16 years or older were interviewed as part of the 2007 NSW Population Health Survey, a continuous telephone survey of NSW residents. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Weighted proportion of the pop...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to report on a nine years of experience of providing medical support during house parties (raves) in the Netherlands, where they can be organized legally. DESIGN This was a prospective, observational study of self-referred patients from 1997 to 2005. During raves, first aid stations are staffed with specifically trained medical and paramedical personn...

On 7 December 1988, a severe earthquake hit in Armenia, a former republic of the Soviet Union (USSR); on 11 September 2001, a manmade attack of similar impact hit New York City. These events share similar implications for the role of the uninjured survivor. With basic training, the uninjured survivors could save lives without tools or resuscitation equipment. This article makes the case for tea...

?A meeting of the Bristol Division of the British Medical Association was held at the Physics Department, Royal Fort, University of Bristol, on Thursday, 12th June, with Dr. J. A. Nixon, Chairman of the Division, presiding. A symposium on " Experiences of First Aid in Air Raids " was held. In opening the meeting the Chairman said it was hoped to get together a body of experience which might be ...

due to a nearby vacuum cleaner or a passing tramear. You will find that these devices will not help you when you are confronted with disease far from the resources of a modern hospital. The only thing that matters is whether or not you have taken heed to the lesson first taught in the Eastern Mediterranean over two thousand years ago, repeated again by the old Cromwellian captain-"the trooper t...