The burns intensive care unit (BICU) staff observed an increasing number of pediatric scald burn admissions as a result of increase injuries associated with the scald burns. A retrospective study was conducted to identify scalds demographics, etiologies, and mortality risk factors. This descriptive study comprised a total of 166 patients aged 0-5 years, who were admitted to the BICU of the Reco...

There is anecdotal and incidental research evidence suggesting that self-inflicted injury is experienced as less painful than when the same injury is applied by another person. We tested the hypothesis that the sensitivity and the ability to tolerate pain differs depending on the person applying the painful stimulus. Self-selected healthy undergraduate students were obtained from the University...

Dear Editors, Self-inflicted ulceration, as part of dermatitis artefacta, is a rare condition often diagnosed by exclusion as clinical, histological and laboratory findings do not comply with any known disease (1). Patients with such skin lesions also suffer from psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, dementia, personality disorders and so on (1). As far as treatment is concerned, best res...

OBJECTIVES Self-inflicted intentional injuries are increasing at an alarming rate in the Republic of Korea, yet few reports describe their relationship with alcohol consumption. The aim of this study was to characterise the association of alcohol drinking patterns and self-inflicted intentional injury in Korean emergency departments (EDs) using WHO collaborative study protocol. DESIGN Cross-s...

background : burn wounds are one of the health problems in modern societies that are associated with irreparable harms and many side problems for patients and their families. infection due to burn wounds is the main cause of death in such patients. one of the methods to prevent infection of burn wounds is topical antibiotic ointments. this study aimed to investigate and identify effective ointm...

On average, about a thousand tornadoes hit the United States every year. Three out of every four tornadoes in the world, occur in the United States. They damage life and property in their path and they often hit with very little, sometimes no warning. Tornadoes cause approximately 70 fatalities and 1,500 injuries in US every year. The interest of this study is to find whether the fatalities and...

When a computation is replicated for greater availability – either by simultaneous execution on multiple machines or by restarting it after a crash – the problem of keeping replicas consistent arises. Replicas lose consistency when their run-time states diverge. This can happen because of differences in hardware inputs (clock ticks, network packets, keystrokes, etc.), which in turn lead to diff...

Five cases of self-inflicted eye injury are described and discussed. A review of the literature shows that several psychiatric diagnoses have been assigned to people who damage their eyes. A variety of mechanisms to explain this phenomenon are described.