BACKGROUND Road traffic injuries are the eighth leading cause of death globally, and the leading cause of death for young people. More than a million people die each year on the world's roads, and the risk of dying as a result of a road traffic injury is highest in Africa. METHODS A prospective hospital based study was undertaken to assess injury characteristics and outcome of road traffic ac...

Received: November 14, 2006 Accepted for publication: February 1, 2007 From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Show Chwan Memorial Hospital Department of Radiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medial Center Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University Address for reprints: Dr. Chi-Wen J...

Slow moving traffic in heavily populated cities, can many times result in loss of lives due to emergency vehicles not being able to reach their destination hospitals on time. In this paper, we assume the usage of inter vehicular communication to optimize the lane level dynamics for an Emergency Vehicle Agent (EVA), traversing a multi lane stretch of road in an urban traffic setting. In particul...

The theme of this series is the management of "every day" clinical problems that present to accident and emergency departments. Part of the aim of the series is to engage the readership in continuing medical education (CME)lcontinuing professional development (CPD) and authors have been asked to provide three questions and key references. If you would like to participate please send your answer...

An unconscious 57 year old man lying on the road under the highway was sent to our emergency department by the emergency medical service with out-of-hospital-cardiac arrest status. On arrival, core body temperature was 21 degrees Celsius and pulse, blood pressure were all undetectable. Figure 1-The electrocardiogram (ECG)showed junctional bradycardia with Osborn J wave. After endotracheal intub...

36 AI MAGAZINE It might be thought that artificial intelligence techniques or other types of computational methods are irrelevant in countries with few technological resources. As just one example of the possibilities, however, take road traffic in cities. The chaotic and spectacular road congestion that is characteristic of developing-world cities is a microcosm of opportunities for applying A...

VLAD VINEREANU1, ILEANA PERIDE1,2*, CRISTIANA DAVID1,2, DANIELA RADULESCU1,2, FLAVIA LILIANA TURCU1,2, MARIANA JINGA3,4, DUMITRU FERECHIDE5, ANDREI NICULAE1,2 1 Sfantul Ioan Emergency Clinical Hospital, Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, 13 Vitan Barzesti Road, 077160, Bucharest, Romania 2 Carol Davila University Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Clinical Department No. 3, 37Dionisie Lupu St...

Received: January 31, 2009 Accepted for publication: May 17, 2011 From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C. School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr Yun-Te Chang Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, R.O.C. 386 Tachung ...

Correspondence to: Mr J Wardrope, Accident and Emergency Department, Northern General Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield S5 7AU, UK; [email protected] _________________________ E mergency situations cause stress, especially if they are unfamiliar or present new and different challenges. Specific life threatening medical emergencies may only be experienced by most practitioners a few times ...

Safety applications provided by Vehicular Ad Hoc Network is very crucial. The vehicles in the road form a network enabling the passengers with infotainment and security. Emergency messages can be disseminated in the VANET scenario for securing the lives of people by avoiding the situations like chain collisions. The main aim of such messages is to provide safety. So these messages should be gen...