Accidents and posttraumatic injuries are one of the most important health and social problems. Most of them require immediate medico-surgical intervention. Accidents are the leading cause of death among young people under age of 40. In 25% of cases they lead to disability. Fall from height causes inter alia blunt chest trauma, and internal organs contusion (e.g. heart and lungs), and may be fat...

We describe an infant with an acute subdural hematoma, a fatal head injury, and severe hemorrhagic retinopathy caused by a stairway fall. His cerebral and ocular findings are considered diagnostic of abusive head trauma by many authors. Our literature search of serious injuries or fatalities from stairway or low-height falls involving young children yielded 19 articles of primary data. These ar...

Accidental falls are some of the most common sources of injury among the elderly. A fall is particularly critical when the elderly person is injured and cannot call for help. This problem is addressed by many fall-detection systems, but they often focus on isolated falls under restricted conditions, not paying enough attention to complex, real-life situations. To achieve robust performance in r...

Falls in the elderly should be seen as treatable symptoms of impending or already present loss of mobility and therefore often loss of independence. The most important European and American epidemiological data are presented, and the diagnostic strategies and appropriate interventions discussed. The latter represent the most effective measures for minimizing functional impairment in the elderly...

Globally, about 80% of worldwide elderly individuals live in the developing countries [1]. Aging lead to reduction of muscle strength reduced joint mobility and degradation of incoming sensory information that in turn may contribute to risk for falls in elderly [2]. Fear of falling and sustained serious injury is increased with advancing age, thirty percent of elders aged 65 years or more, half...

Foreword For a human, experiencing a fall unobserved can be doubly dangerous. The obvious possibility of initial injury may be further aggravated by the possible consequences if treatment is not obtained within a short time. For example, many elderly individuals can suffer accidental falls due to weakness or dizziness—or, in general, their diminished self-care and self-protective ability. Since...

INTRODUCTION Anterior elbow dislocation is an infrequent lesion, produced by direct trauma to the proximal ulna after a fall on the elbow in flexion and injury to the neurovascular bundle is not infrequent. Authors report a case of acute anterior dislocation of the elbow joint with neurovascular injury. CASE REPORT A 30-year-old male admitted with a history of accidental fall followed by pain...

A prospective observational study was carried out at the Emergency Department, Hospital Kuala Lumpur to determine the proportion of accidental head injury among children and the circumstances of injury. The study was carried out from November 1993 to January 1994 on all children below 14 years who presented to the Emergency Department with accidental head injury. Accidental head injury made up ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the presentation of young children with abdominal trauma caused by high-velocity accidental (HVA), low-velocity accidental (LVA), and inflicted injury, and to test the hypothesis that a delay in care is highly predictive of an inflicted injury. METHODS We performed a retrospective chart review at an urban Level I pediatric trauma center between 1991 and 2001 of children ...