The use of women’s labor in water transport is limited due to the specifi cs of production processes on vessels, the duration of fl ights, isolation from shore bases and families. Among the total contingent of members of vessel`s crew, women make up 10.7% on transport marine up to 34.4% on river transport vessels. The analysis of traumatism affecting women was based on 134 cases, which happened...

* The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, No 4/73, official journal of the Fédération Internationale de Médecine Sportive. The concept of traumatism, originally understood as the local and general effect produced by the impact of an injuring agent upon a living body, has been gradually extended to include all violent injuries which may occur in the course of everyday life, even thr...

Thoracic trauma (TT) is a frequent problem in our setting, derived from the high incidence of traffic, domestic and work-related accidents. Other aggressions and accidents are also frequent, such as sports-related. There is an approximate associated mortality rate of 10%, in many cases after the patient has been admitted to hospital. In the United States, where the data are more reliable, traum...