Severe ocular injuries are uncommon in patients with pure orbital blow-out fractures. Over a 3-year period, 45 patients with radiologically proved blow-out fractures were reviewed by an ophthalmologist. Decrease in visual acuity was the main clinical finding accompanying significant eye injury. Although most eye injuries were transient, early ophthalmic assessment is recommended to exclude pote...

Front tyre blow-outs lead to several fatal accidents involving heavy vehicles. Common for most heavy vehicles is a positive scrub radius. This can result in a destabilising steering wheel torque at front tyre blow-out. In this study the safety improvement achieved when reducing scrub radius is quantified. By using a heavy truck equipped with a modified electric power steering system it was poss...

Computed tomography (CT) was employed in the study of two adults’ traumata from Croatian bioarchaeology – a female from a secondary archaeological context (Zagajci) and male from a medieval burial complex (Zvonimirovo). Injuries were considered in reference to possible violent acts versus accidents. Our aim went two ways: an isolated Zagajci cranium with healed depressed fracture to the frontal...

A 68-year-old man was admitted with continuous chest pain for >8 hours. The initial twelve-lead electrocardiogram (Picture 1) suggested an ongoing broad anterior myocardial infarction (MI). He suddenly began to suffer from severe hypotension with massive pericardial effusion (Picture 2A) before any emergent cardiac intervention could be performed and he died despite undergoing cardiopulmonary r...