The aetiology of acute traumatic occupational hand injuries seen at a South African state hospital

Glass injuries seen in the emergency department of a South African district hospital

BACKGROUND The emergency department of Embhuleni Hospital frequently manages patients with glass-related injuries. This study assessed these injuries and the glass that caused them in more detail. AIM The objectives of our study included determining the type of glass causing these injuries and describing the circumstances associated with different types of glass injuries. SETTING The emerge...

Developlllent of a Hand Sensitivity Test for the Hypersensitive Hand ( traumatic injuries , hand therapy , occupational therapy assessment )

An instrument was developed to measure the effects of a desensitization program on hand hypersensitivity. It was standardized with 40 "normal" subJects ages 20 to 40 of both sexes and two ethnic groups. Results showed reliability coefficients ranging from .74 to .82 for the three modalities employed in the test. Analyses of variance of agreement between test and retest scores revealed no signif...

Open globe injuries in patients seen at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.

BACKGROUND Ocular trauma accounts for a significant proportion of admissions to the eye ward at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH), Cape Town, South Africa. There are few published studies on ocular trauma in South Africa. Some studies elsewhere have shown an association between open globe injuries and recent alcohol use, but no such study has been conducted in this country. OBJECTIVES To identify ...

A review on aetiology and pathogeny of African horse sickness

Abstract: A Case-crossover Study of Transient Risk Factors for Occupational Traumatic Hand Injuries

injuries. Since occupational hand injuries occur as a result of acute exogenous force, most causes of occupational hand injuries are transient risk factors occurring immediately before injury occurs. Triggers can be reasonably defined as preceding causes in causal relationships. When many different causes exist causing the same outcome, the probability that a certain outcome will occur can be r...