Objectives—This report presents final 2007 data on the 10 leading causes of death in the United States by age, race, sex, and Hispanic origin. Leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death are also presented. This report supplements the Division of Vital Statistics’ annual report of final mortality statistics. Methods—Data in this report are based on information from all death cert...

Aim: To explore maternal perceptions of supervision and childhood unintentional injury in order to develop understanding and explanation for differences in unintentional injury rates between an advantaged and disadvantaged area. Background: Unintentional injury is the second cause of mortality and a significant cause of morbidity in the 0-4 year age group. Children living in socio-economic disa...

Unintentional injuries claim the lives of more children each year than any other cause of death. A substantial proportion of child hospitalizations and emergency department visits also are attributable to unintentional injuries. The conceptualization of unintentional injuries as a public health problem that is preventable has gained credibility over the past few decades, as effective solutions ...

Road departure is one of the main causes single vehicle and frontal crashes. By implementing lateral support systems, a significant amount these accidents can be avoided. Typical are normally occurring due to unintentional lane where driver drifts towards across line identifying edge lane. The Lane Support Systems (LSS) uses cameras “read” lines on road alert if car approaching lines. Anyway, d...

Unmanned Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) are widely used in safety-critical missions, spanning across monitoring, surveillance, and search rescue missions. In most cases, the human operator controls ROV under stressful conditions harsh environments. The physical mental states of vital as they may cause involuntary movements, issuing unintentional commands due to fatigue or stress. Consequentl...

Objectives—This report presents final 2006 data on the 10 leading causes of death in the United States by age, race, sex, and Hispanic origin. Leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death are also presented. This report supplements the annual report of final mortality statistics. Methods—Data in this report are based on information from all death certificates filed in the 50 state...

Nutmeg ingestion in large amounts can cause toxic symptoms such as hallucinations, tachycardia and anticholinergic effects. We describe a case of a 37-year-old woman who experienced an unintentional autointoxication of nutmeg. It is likely that nutmeg intoxication is underreported. We suggest to specifically think of nutmeg ingestion in case of symptoms as mentioned above.

Consistency sounds like something to strive for. After all, who would strive for inconsistency? Consistency is widely praised in guidelines and principles, but with some scrutiny, it becomes clear that consistency is hard to define and measure. Oellogg discusses several dimensions of consistency (including platform/devices) [kellT7, kellTU] and both Oellogg and Grudin [grudTU] note that a desig...

Procrastination refers to the delay or postponement of a task or decision and is often conceptualised as a failure of self-regulation. Recent research has suggested that procrastination could be delineated into two domains: intentional and unintentional. In this two-study paper, we aimed to develop a measure of unintentional procrastination (named the Unintentional Procrastination Scale or the ...

Naltrexone is a long acting opioid antagonist that is used in rehabilitation programmes to maintain heroin abstinence. It is a relatively new drug prescribed by specialists in substance misuse. Its actions and effects may not be familiar to many accident and emergency doctors or even to the people who take it. A case report is described where accidental ingestion of naltrexone results in a medi...