INTRODUCTION: Patients who have electrical accidents can apply to hospital with clinical signs ranging from simple skin burns serious organ injuries. Our aim in this study is evaluate whether QT, QTc interval and QT/QTc, Tp-e/QT, Tp-e/QTc ratios be a marker for determine the risk of arrhythmias children cases electric shock injuries that fatal.
 
 MATERIAL & METHOD: In our study, ...

conclusions results of this study indicate that selective brain cooling is an effective method of decreasing icp in rats; however, the deeper hypothermia caused a greater decrease in icp three hours after hypothermia induction. background experimental approaches have been promising with the use of therapeutic hypothermia after traumatic brain injury (tbi) whereas clinical data have not supporte...

This study investigated risk factors for frequent work-related burn and cut injuries and low back pain (LBP) among kitchen workers including personal, work-related and environmental factors. Subjects were 991 kitchen workers in 103 schools, 17 hospitals and nursing homes, and 6 restaurants in central Japan. A cross-sectional survey was carried out using a structured self-administered questionna...

The authors are with the Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15236 USA Abstract—This paper updates an earlier report by the authors that studied electrical injuries from 1992 to 1998. The previous information is expanded and supplemented with fatal and nonfatal injury rates and trends through 2002. Injury numbers and rates were u...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Venipuncture is one of the most common procedures performed in daily anesthetic practice. Though usually innocuous, peripheral nerve injuries with serious sequelae have been described following venipuncture. We present a case of venipuncture-related lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve injury, alongside the essential diagnostic and prognostic information for day to day...

The development of fecal incontinence after childbirth is a common event. This incontinence responds to a multifactorial etiology in which the most common element is external anal sphincter injury. There are several risk factors, and it is very important to know and avoid them. Sphincter injury may result from perineal tear or sometimes by incorrectly performing an episiotomy. It is very import...

OBJECTIVE The industrial aluminum production process is addressed. The purpose is to give a short but comprehensive description of the electrolysis cell technology, the raw materials used, and the health and safety relevance of the process. METHODS This article is based on a study of the extensive chemical and medical literature on primary aluminum production. RESULTS At present, there are ...

To report public health practitioners' perceptions of injury prevention in Changsha, China. We undertook a cross-sectional study at Changsha, Hunan, China. An anonymous self-reported survey was conducted to ascertain the proportion of respondents who answered negatively to questions about the value of injury prevention. Over 20% of respondents answered 'unpreventable' or 'don't know' to whether...