trauma during pregnancy is remarkably common, motor vehicle crashes are cause of hospitalized trauma during pregnancy. trauma occurs in 5% of pregnancies that appropriate high proportion of maternal and fetal mortality. motor vehicle crashes, falls, assaults, including domestic violence, are all important mechanisms of injury. motor vehicle accidents account for more than 50% of all traumas dur...

Some of the major causes of maxillofacial injuries are assault/inter-personal violence (IPV), motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), work-related injuries, sporting accidents and falls. However, the epidemiological data for the different types of injury vary significantly and are influenced by geographic location, socioeconomic status, the time of year when patients are assessed and the type of facili...

transportation as a prerequisite and basics of stable development has a key role and great efficiency in seeding facilities and intellect. it has also a significant role as an effective index in growth and development to the extent that the number of accidents in our country are increasing which carries with them a lot of financial, psychological and social losses, for this reason, it seems to ...

Epidemiological studies around the world point to motor vehicle accidents as being one of the leading causes of death. The objective of our study was to analyze some characteristics of motor vehicle accidents in the region of Herzegovina. The study included 226 patients treated at the Clinic for Surgical Diseases and Urology of the University Clinical Hospital Mostar in 2005. A total of 78.3% o...

The prediction of traffic accidents is one of most important issues in our life. In the prediction of traffic accidents, a GIS platform to extract the important features including day, temperature, humidity, weather conditions, and month of occurred traffic accidents has been used. In this study, a decision making system (DMS) based on correlation-based feature selection and classifier algorith...

Background and aims: Although accident is the secondary cause of mortality in Iran, information on the occurrence and mortality are not wholly understood. The study aimed to explore seasonal occurrence and mortality pattern of traffic accidents in Isfahan population, Iran. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional. The data on traffic accidents of Isfahan Province was extracted from the Minist...

RESULTS Etiology of Maxillo-facial fractures The most common cause of maxillo-Facial fractures was motor vehicle accidents (Table I) which comprised lorries, motorcars and motorcycles accidents (71.9%). Frequency of fractures of the maxillo-facial bones due to falls (13.7%) and fights (9.1 %) were almost equal but far less often than motor vehicle accidents. The others were caused at work, spor...

Obstructive sleep apnoea is associated with an increased risk of sleep-related motor vehicle accidents. Seven recent legal cases of fatal motor vehicle accidents on NSW roads are presented, where the driver who caused the accident was suffering from an unrecognised or under-treated sleep disorder. The legal outcomes in these cases were variable: some of the drivers have been acquitted and other...

conclusions the findings of the current study will be beneficial in prevention of rtcs and its associated complications and hence will be vital for policy makers, health service managers and stakeholders. context despite considerable attention given to health statistics of road traffic crashes (rtcs), the epidemiological aspects of injuries resulting from rtcs are not fully understood in iran a...