No physician who performs a legitimate medical operation on patient commits criminal offence or delict. This is so in spite of the fact that infringement bodily integrity another person seen as both crime and civil wrong. Notwithstanding may desire operation, defence consent cannot possibly justify serious injuries intentionally inflicted course of, say, an amputation, since this procedure high...

During visits to emergency medical facilities, the primary care of and risk identification for individuals who have attempted suicide is considered an important element in suicide prevention. With the ultimate goal of helping to prevent suicide, the aim of the present study was to determine the characteristics of patients with self-inflicted injuries who presented in the emergency department. P...

OBJECTIVES Adolescents are over-represented in injury statistics. New Zealand is privileged in having a hospital discharge database allowing for analysis of non-fatal injury data at a national level. An epidemiological description of adolescent injury morbidity is provided and options for prevention are discussed. METHOD People aged 15-19 years admitted to hospital for their injuries in the p...

BACKGROUND The dangers associated with horse riding, a popular activity throughout Australia, are well documented; yet, few studies have comprehensively described injuries caused by horses to nonriders. This study aimed to facilitate targeted injury prevention strategies and appropriate trauma management by describing all horse-related injuries, for both riders and nonriders, in Queensland, and...

Scald burns to the feet and lower extremities in children are described in the literature as often resulting from forced immersions. This report illustrates 3 cases of burns whose distribution and historical factors identify them as accidental. The location of these accidental burns is similar to those found in inflicted injury, but the patterns were indicative of flowing water burns, not force...

DESCRIPTION A 35-year-old man suffered a self-inflicted work injury from a circular saw on the dorsum of the thumb on his nondominant hand, sustaining a total transection of his extensor pollicus longus (EPL) and a concomitant dorsal capsule injury.

Interactions between large marine predators and their prey are difficult to observe and little is known about the risk of predation faced by sea turtles. The frequency of predator-inflicted injuries, however, has afforded insights into the predation risk faced by many taxa. We measured the frequency of shark-inflicted injuries on green (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtl...