background : chaff cutter, a commonly used fodder cutter machine in rural parts of india is responsible for a significant number of agricultural-related accidents. mostly, these accidents lead to amputation of the upper extremities and the fatal injuries are extremely rare. case report: this article presents a very unusual case of fatal head injury and crush injury to right leg sustained by a f...

children under 5 years old are the most vulnerable age group in car accidents. researchers showed that application and correct use of child safety seats can reduce the risk of fatal injury by 71 percent for infants and 54 percent for toddlers. the purpose of this review is to identify factors and procedures that declare the correct use of child car seats which prevent children head injuries tha...

A comprehensive neuropathological study was undertaken on 87 children aged between 2 and 15 years with fatal head injuries to identify those features which occurred at the time of head injury (fractured skull, contusions, intracranial haematoma and diffuse axonal injury) and those which were subsequently produced by complicating processes (hypoxic brain damage, raised intracranial pressure, inf...

Background The research literature was systematically reviewed and results were summarized from studies assessing bicycle helmet effectiveness to mitigate head, serious head, face, neck and fatal head injury in a crash or fall. Methods Four electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, COMPENDEX and SCOPUS) were searched for relevant, peer-reviewed articles in English. Included studies reported medi...

road traffic accidents (rta) are one of the most important causes of death and disability all over the world. in developing countries the problem is more complicated. based on the estimation by unicef, rate of rta in iran is 20 times more than world’s average. in iran among all unintentional fatal injuries inflicted on children under five, traffic related fatalities are the leading cause of dea...

Injury and collision data from London’s Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) and the UK’s Police fatal files were used to quantify and describe the nature of pedestrian head injury and investigate the causes. The HEMS data relating to all pedestrian accidents since 2000 was analysed with respect to their injuries, and the cost of these injuries was estimated using the time they spent on ...

Physicians disagree on several issues regarding head injury in infants and children, including the potential lethality of a short-distance fall, a lucid interval in an ultimately fatal head injury, and the specificity of retinal hemorrhage for inflicted trauma. There is scant objective evidence to resolve these questions, and more information is needed. The objective of this study was to determ...