BACKGROUND Rugby union is a collision-based ball sport played at the professional level internationally. Rugby union has one of the highest reported incidences of injury of all team sports. PURPOSE To identify the characteristics, incidence, and severity of injuries occurring in Australian professional Super Rugby Union. DESIGN Descriptive epidemiology study. METHODS The present study was...

purpose: to evaluate the prevalence of acute ocular chemical injuries in patients referred to labbafinejad medical center (lmc) over a period of one year. methods: all patients with chemical burns referred to lmc emergency ophthalmology service were included in the study. demographic characteristics and information regarding the burn were obtained. visual acuity assessment and slit lamp examina...

This study provides an empirical analysis of the injury severity outcomes maritime accidents by exploring influential factors for two underlying states: injury-free state and injury-prone state. The former may reflect generation mechanism with limited potential to result in outcomes, whereas, latter represent when accident falls into category. To account possible presence these regimes, a zero-...

conclusions hepatotoxicity of halogenated inhalational anesthetics has been well documented in available literature. halothane-induced liver injury was extensively acknowledged; however, the next generation halogenated anesthetics have different molecular structures and associated with less hepatotoxicity. although anesthesia-induced hepatitis is not a common occurrence, we must consider the as...


 Background. In South Africa (SA), road traffic injuries, homicides and burns are the leading causes of injury-related deaths among children. Injury-related well documented for SA, but this is not case non-fatal injuries.Objectives. To describe injuries sustained children aged 0 - 13 years, to identify any significant sex differences by age group, cause injury, admission status injury sev...

background neurosurgical treatment and the severity of head injury (hi) can have remarkable effect on patients’ neuropsychiatric outcomes. objectives this research aimed to study the effect of these factors on cognitive functioning, general health and incidence of mental disorders in patients with a traumatic brain injury (tbi). patients and methods in this descriptive, longitudinal study, 206 ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) use and mortality in a large cohort of injured patients. We hypothesized that PAC use is associated with improved survival in critically injured trauma patients. DESIGN Retrospective database analysis. SETTING A total of 268 level 1 trauma centers from across the United States. PATIENTS A total of 53,312 patient...

BACKGROUND Hospital discharge data are used for occupational injury surveillance, but observed hospitalisation trends are affected by trends in healthcare practices and workers' compensation coverage that may increasingly impair ascertainment of minor injuries relative to severe injuries. The objectives of this study were to (1) describe the development of a severe injury definition for surveil...