Despite the frequency of traumatic injuries due to road accidents and potential importance of identifying children at risk of impaired recovery one year after a road accident, there is a lack of data on long-term recovery of health status, except in children with severe traumatic brain injury. The aim of the present study was to evaluate predictive factors of recovery in children one year after...

INTRODUCTION "DETERIORATION OF a vehicle with time is inescapable, whether from normal wear, abuse, defective construction, improper maintenance, poor quality of original or repair parts, inadequate skill of mechanics or other factors. With the deterioration of such components as brakes, steering systems, and tires, the chances of the vehicle becoming involved in a crash increase." This asserti...

The objective of this retrospective study is to characterize the nature and severity of injuries of hospitalized traffic accident victims using the "Abbreviated Injury Scale" (AIS). Two-hundred and twenty such patients in a trauma reference hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil were assessed. One-hundred and eleven of them were pedestrians, eighty-three vehicular passengers and twenty-six motorcyclists...

The objective of this study was to develop a methodology by which the risk from major accident hazards to the environment can be assessed or quantified. An index method, the Environmental Risk Index (ERI), has been developed based on an existing method, the Environmental Hazard Index (EHI), and the Department of the Environment (DoE) definitions of events that would constitute a major accident ...

Risk aggregation is the process of combining multiple individual risks to develop a better understanding overall risk on system. Different can have different consequences and units measure. This study contributes by presenting general method combine posed an Arctic ship accident. The considers ecological socio-economic potential oil spill, life-safety evacuation. Existing models for each conseq...