Traumatic brain injuries from work accidents: a retrospective study

Traumatic brain injuries from work accidents: a retrospective study.

BACKGROUND The United Arab Emirates is a rapidly developing country with recent expansion in construction and manufacturing. AIMS To investigate the occurrence and outcomes following occupational traumatic brain injury (TBI) requiring hospital admission. METHODS Records for all TBI cases admitted to an Abu Dhabi hospital between 2005 and 2009 were reviewed. Data on mechanisms of occupationa...

Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries Due to Motor Vehicle Accidents

Background and Aim: Spine trauma is an important health problem. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) due to Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) might have a different epidemiologic pattern in Guilan province of Iran owing to its geographical characteristics. Therefore, the present study was conducted to the study epidemiology of SCI injuries due to road accidents in a trauma referral center in Guilan. ...

Injuries from road accidents.

Retrospective Study of Traumatic Dental Injuries in North-East of Iran

Introduction: Traumatic dental injuries (TDI) in children and adolescents are a common dental health problem and the prevalence of these injuries has increased during the past few decades. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the data of the patients with dental trauma in permanent teeth looking for treatment in the Dental Trauma Clinic in the North-east of Iran over 4 years. Methods: During t...

Brain Injuries in Real World Accidents –

A study of brain injury biomechanics has been conducted using detailed reconstruction of real world injury events. A total of nineteen head injury cases were identified in neurosurgery wards of two hospitals in Sweden. From these cases, nine were subjected to detailed reconstruction techniques to quantify the head loading causing the injuries. Output of the analyses included the kinematics of t...