This research measured the effects of Michigan’s compulsory safety belt use law on traffic crashes and injuries of various severities. Using time-series methods, the authors analyzed monthly frequencies of crash-induced injuries and fatalities from January 1978 through December 1987. Exposure to risk of occupant injury was controlled statistically by including aggregate frequency of crashes as ...

Musculoskeletal injuries have long been a problem in general purpose forces, yet anecdotal evidence provided by medical, human performance, and training leadership suggests musculoskeletal injuries are also a readiness impediment to Special Operations Forces (SOF). The purpose of this study was to describe the injury epidemiology of SOF utilizing self-reported injury histories. Data were collec...

Dec 2009 were studied. Patients with vascular injuries caused by causes other than tear gas shells were excluded from the study. Results: All patients were treated with reverse saphenous vein graft as segmental loss was less than 2.5 cm. Wound infection was the most common complication, followed by graft occlu-sion. Amputation rate was 16.66%. Associated nerve injury occurred in 44.44% ...

Outcomes of traumatic brain injury (TBI) vary because of differences in primary and secondary injuries. Primary injuries occur at the time of a traumatic event, whereas secondary injuries occur later as a result of cellular and molecular events activated in the brain and other tissues by primary injuries. We used a Drosophila melanogaster TBI model to investigate secondary injuries that cause a...

Background:  Hand injuries are among the most common childhood injuries. No study has been performed regarding the epidemiology of hand injuries in the pediatric population of Iran. This study aimed to examine the epidemiology of hand injuries among children in southeast of Iran.   Methods:  This cross-sectional study was performed via census sampling on patients, aged 16 years or less, with a ...

During 1986, all sports injuries (n = 5222) were prospectively recorded at the two casualty departments in Arhus, Denmark. Volleyball injuries (n = 278) accounted for 5.3% of all sports injuries. An evaluation of the rehabilitation period and the consequences of the injuries was undertaken by questionnaire three years after the injury. The injury incidence was 1.9 injuries/1000 inhabitants/year...

Introduction: Injuries are the causes of irreparable damages and costs in urban rural settings. Preventive procedures effective if correct related information is gathered provided. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate injury patterns factors a large teaching hospital. Methods: The current cross-sectional was conducted at Edalatian Emergency Center, Mashhad, Iran, 2016. All subjects were e...

BACKGROUND Overlooked injuries and delayed diagnoses are still common problems in the treatment of polytrauma patients. Therefore, ongoing documentation describing the incidence rates of missed injuries, clinically significant missed injuries, contributing factors and outcome is necessary to improve the quality of trauma care. This review summarizes the available literature on missed injuries, ...

purpose :   despite numerous studies which have been done regarding soccer injuries worldwide, there is lack of available data considering the epidemiology of injuries in the iranian soccer premier league , although it is the most popular sport in the country. t he main goal of this research was to determine the incidence of physical injuries in the studied population, considering other charact...

The incidence of urethral injuries in reports from Vietnam indicates a moderate variability. Salvatierra and colleagues reported 14 urethral injuries in 252 urological war injuries for an incidence of 5.6%, whereas Selikowitz reported 25 urethral injuries in 250 urological injuries for an incidence of approximately 10%. (Actually, Selikowitz’s incidence would be higher if he had included anteri...