Introduction: Physicians who care for trauma patients should be aware of the possibility of a pulmonary embolism presenting immediately after traumatic injury. Case Report: We report a case of a 30­year­old female restrained driver who developed a pulmonary embolism within two hours of a motor vehicle accident. Conclusion: We conclude that trauma can produce a hypercoagulable state that can occ...

----Every day around the world, a large percentage of people die from traffic accident injuries. An effective approach for reducing traffic fatalities is: first building automatic traffic accident detection system, second, reducing the time between when an accident occurs and when first emergency responders are dispatched to the scene of the accident. Recent approaches are using built-in vehicl...

Rarely performed documentation tasks usually require support for the user so that the data is recorded both completely and correctly. The broad market penetration with mobile devices like smart phones provides new possibilities for giving support for these kinds of tasks. This paper focuses on one particular widely-used instance of such a documentation task, namely the European Accident Report ...

A case of massive bilateral diaphragmatic rupture following a low impact motor vehicle accident is described. The patient experienced herniation of intraabdominal contents into the thoracic cavity, but suffered no additional injuries. Few cases of bilateral diaphragmatic rupture have been reported and no cases of acute bilateral rupture have been described as an isolated injury. Diaphragmatic r...

The majority of blunt trauma is secondary to motor vehicle crashes,especially in those wearing seatbelts or sitting in the front or passenger seat location.Hollow viscus gastrointestinal injuries occur more frequently in small bowel, followed by colorectal, duodenum, stomach and appendix. A 25-year-old male presents after being involved in a motor vehicle accident. Initialworkup was significant...

In Saudi Arabia the motor vehicle is the main means of transportation. Between 1971 and 1997; 564,762 people died or were injured in road traffic accidents, a figure equivalent to 3.5% of the total population in Saudi Arabia. During this period 66,914 people have died on the roads in Saudi Arabia due to road accidents, amounting to one person killed and four injured every hour. Over 65% of acci...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To analyse the relationship between motor vehicle collision factors and TBI. RESEARCH DESIGN Retrospective design analysed the difference between the types of brain injuries sustained in distinct collision configurations. METHODS AND PROCEDURES Medical charts and police accident reports were reviewed for individuals sustaining TBI in 168 motor vehicle collisions between 19...

Survivors of motor vehicle accidents and/or survivors of critical care unit admission are at increased risk of developing post-traumatic reactions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. Examining the possible risk factors for the development of these disorders must consider pre-traumatic, peri-traumatic and post-traumatic factors and must do so across domains relating t...

Approximately one third of deaths among persons aged 15-24 years result from motor-vehicle crashes (1). Although alcohol use increases the risk for motor-vehicle crashes for all drivers, for young drivers the risk begins to increase at very low blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) (2). In addition, in young persons who drive after drinking, the relative risk for crash involvement is greater at a...