Diaphragmatic injuries occur frequently after penetrating rather than blunt trauma and account for 8% of all organ injuries from penetrating trauma. Motor vehicle accidents account for approximately 50% of blunt injuries, followed in frequency by falls from height. The mechanism of injury in these accidents is that the body quickly decelerates while the organs continue to move downward or forwa...

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a chronic and progressive disorder that occurs after some traumas and accident. injuries and harm to health caused by motor vehicle accidents (mvas) have become an issue of global concern, as mvas are expected to be the third largest contributor to the worldwide burden of disease by the year 2020. chronic ptsd is a common consequence of mva and that it m...

The causes of violent deaths have changed with the growth of civilization. In England the risk of being murdered or hanged is much smaller than three centuries ago when life was held to be cheaper, but in the last 150 years new and potent methods of killing have been introduced. With the development of industrialization new hazards arose from machinery, from railways, and from the internal comb...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between night myopia and the occurrence of night-time motor vehicle accidents in a group of professional drivers. METHODS We examined 136 professional drivers. Refraction was determined in full illumination (100 cd/m2) and after sitting in darkness for 5 mins. The change in refraction, indicative of night myopia, was correlated with the number of motor ...