conclusions in comparison with road traffic accidents on city streets, trauma patients in rtas on roads out of the city have longer pre-hospital time intervals and more severe injuries; therefore this group needs more pre-hospital resuscitation interventions. results findings of this study showed that, 75% of rtas occurred on city streets (n = 1 251). motor-car accidents were the most frequent ...

conclusions traditional preparation significantly decreased inflammation and accelerated wound healing in treated rats. furthermore, the findings of this study can be applied clinically in the future. background skin burn is one of the most common complications and remains a major public health issue worldwide. objectives this experiment was conducted to study the effects of traditional medicin...

objective: trauma is one of the main causes of losing effective life among the populations. knowing the pattern of trauma in each country can be considered as the first step in planning preventive programs to reduce trauma injuries. this study was conducted to evaluate the epidemiological status of trauma in shahid bahonar hospital in kerman. methods: this retrospective, descriptive cross-secti...

conclusions complete rupture of the facial nerve is challenging and the treatment is surgery, which requires careful planning. introduction facial paralysis is a devastating condition with profound functional, aesthetic and psychosocial consequences. tumors within or outside the skull, bell’s palsy and trauma are the most common causes of facial paralysis in adults. case presentation our patien...

background violence is the cause of death for 1.5 million people in a year. objectives our study aimed to estimate the incidence rate of self-reported interpersonal violence related physical injury (vrpi) and its associated factors in iran. patients and methods the sample included people ranged from 15 to 64 years old who were residing in iran. a total of 1525 clusters were selected from the wh...

introduction: globally, it is estimated that around 5.8 million people die annually as result of injuries, which causes 10% of all deaths and 16% of disability adjusted life years lost worldwide. this study aimed to determine the epidemiology of injuries in emergency departments in iran. method: this cross sectional study was carried out using national injury surveillance data registry from 21 ...

Data from 17,726 battle casualties admitted to all the US Army hospitals in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) from March 1966 to July 1967 (60% of all patients wounded during this time) revealed that 13.8% of all wounds involved the abdomen, and that the kidney was involved in approximately 9% of those with abdominal wounds. The mortality in this group (who had renal wounds as a component of their ...

In the limited data published to date on genitourinary injuries from the Vietnam War, the incidence of scrotal–testicular injuries has varied from 25.4% of all urological injuries reported by Salvatierra et al to as high as 35.4% by Busch et al. In all the series to date, scrotal–testicular injuries constituted the major proportion of wounds of the external genitalia. These wounds were most oft...