The head is a vital organ and the most vulnerable part of body to receive injuries. Injuries to the head are accidental, mostly vehicular or homicidal. Material and methods The present study was based on retrospective analysis of 218 homicidal deaths in three years period from January 2004 to December 2006 from autopsies done in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Gandhi Medical...

Introduction: The impact on head injury is trauma to the scalp, brain, and skull, so maintain stable oxygenation in body brain tissues, oxygen therapy very important patients that saturation levels increase. Objective: To determine description of changes clients with injuries. Methods: descriptive case study subjects used were 2 through inclusion exclusion criteria. Results: Changes Head injuri...

This study investigates the effect of the 2004 US shopping cart safety standard on shopping-cart-related injuries among children younger than 15 years of age by retrospectively analyzing data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. An estimated 530 494 children younger than 15 years were treated in US emergency departments for shopping-cart-related injuries from 1990 to 2011, a...

The massive number of injuries sustained in traffic accidents is a growing problem worldwide, especially in developing countries. In 1998, more than one million people were killed in traffic accidents worldwide, while about ten times as many people were injured. Injuries to the central nervous system and in particular to the head are especially critical to human life. This thesis contains five ...

BACKGROUND An estimated 3700 individuals are seen annually in US emergency departments for nail gun-related injuries. Approximately 45 cases have been reported in the literature concerning nail gun injuries penetrating the cranium. These cases pose a challenge for the neurosurgeon because of the uniqueness of each case, the dynamics of high pressure nail gun injuries, and the surgical planning ...

Penetrating neck injuries are commonly related to stab wounds and gunshot wounds in the United States. The injuries are classified by penetration site in terms of the three anatomical zones of the neck. Based on this zonal classification system, penetrating injuries to the head and neck have traditionally been evaluated by conventional angiography and/or surgical exploration. In recent years, m...

One hundred children presented over 40 days with BMX bike injuries, 40 of which had been sustained while trying to perform stunts. Injuries in this series were compared with previously reported injuries from accidents on ordinary bicycles. BMX bike injuries differed little from ordinary bike injuries except in the greater proportion of injuries due to stunts and the smaller incidence of head in...

US and European pedestrian crash cases were analyzed to determine frequency of injury by body region and by the vehicle component identified as the injury source. US pedestrian data was drawn from the Pedestrian Crash Data Study (PCDS). European pedestrian data was drawn from the German In-Depth Accident Study (GIDAS). Results were analyzed in terms of both serious injury (AIS 3+) and disabling...