Car ownership in China reached 194 million vehicles at the end of 2016. The traffic congestion index (TCI) exceeds 2.0 during rush hour in some cities. Inefficient processing for minor traffic accidents is considered to be one of the leading causes for road traffic jams. Meanwhile, the process after an accident is quite troublesome. The main reason is that it is almost always impossible to get ...

This paper investigates the relationship between a passenger car's year of registration and its crashworthiness and aggressivity in real-world crashes. Crashworthiness is defined as the ability of a car to protect its own occupants, and has been evaluated in single and two-car crashes. Aggressivity is defined as the ability to protect users travelling in other vehicles, and has been evaluated o...

A carcass of a Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) that was inadvertently killed in a car accident in Golestan National Park, North-Iran, was referred to the laboratory of the Department of Environment in Golestan Province. The carcass was infested with hard ticks. Five ticks were collected and identified as Ixodes ricinus (one female) and Rhipicephalus turanicus (four males).  These ha...

in human several kinds of electrocardiographic findings have been reported in association with pneumothorax such as decreased and/or alternating qrs amplitude (electrical alternans). however, electrocardiographic changes concurrent with pneumothorax have rarely been discussed in veterinary literature. a 3-year-old male crossbreed dog was presented with a history of car accident. thoracic au...

INTRODUCTION Traffic accidents are the 8(th) cause of mortality in different countries and are expected to rise to the 3(rd) rank by 2020. Based on the Haddon matrix numerous factors such as environment, host, and agent can affect the severity of traffic-related traumas. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the effective factors in severity of these traumas based on Haddon matrix. M...

OBJECTIVE Rescuing severe trauma patients who are injured far from a trauma center is challenging for rural emergency systems. We report a severe trauma case that occurred at a remote location, in which the patient's life was saved by a dispatched doctor car and a physician from a local medical facility. PATIENT A 31-year-old man experienced a left femur injury due to a fallen tree. The fire ...

Viral myocarditis exhibits different clinical phenotypes depending on the age of the patient. In pediatric patients, viral myocarditis can present as acute heart failure and cardiogenic shock, and in older patients, it often presents as chronic, slowly progressive heart failure and dilated cardiomyopathy. The severity of viral myocarditis is determined by a delicate balance between the viral in...

Posttraumatic cerebral infarction is a rare complication and is an indicator of poor clinical outcome of head-trauma in spite of appropriate medical and surgical interventions. Cerebellar infarction following head trauma is also very rare and only a few reported cases are available in literatures. A 2-year-old child sustained head injury in a car accident and underwent surgery because of cerebr...

Most of us are one or two crises away from needing help. One cancer diagnosis, car accident, layoff, divorce can throw our lives into chaos. At the height COVID-19, many people were forced to turn community organizations for help very first time. Nestled beside