EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SPINAL CORD INJURY IN SPAIN The incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) has increased from 8 cases per million population (1984–1985) to 23.5 cases per million population (2000–2009) in Spain. Currently, it is estimated that 38,000 persons livewith SCI in Spain. According to data from the Spanish Ministry of Health (Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad, 2...

The objective of the present study is to synthesize and investigate using the same set of sixty-one real-world accidents the human head injury prediction capability of the head injury criterion (HIC) and the head impact power (HIP) based criterion as well as the injury mechanisms related criteria provided by the simulated injury monitor (SIMon) and the Louis Pasteur University (ULP) finite elem...

BACKGROUND All over the world motorcycle accident are one of the major causes of road death and injury. This study aimed to determine the pattern of Motorcycle Fatal Accidents in Mashhad-Iran. METHODS This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in 2006 to analyze the epidemiological pattern of the motorcycle accident in Mashhad, North-Eastern Iran. Three hundred fifty cases of moto...

The main travel mode of the elderly group is walking, but with physical inconvenience caused by growth group, reaction speed decreases, and they are more vulnerable to serious trauma even death in traffic accidents. In recent years, modeling pedestrian accidents from macro aspects one research directions road safety. influencing factors related complex built environment. Considering spatial het...

Background: Injury and deaths due to road traffic accidents (RTA) are a major public health problem in developingcountries where more than 85% of all 90% disability-adjusted life years were lost from trafficinjuries.Objectives: To study the type injuries Road Traffic Accidents reported at tertiary care hospital todetermine various factors for occurrence accidents.Method: Study was planned cause...

Vulnerable road users, especially pedestrians, are more susceptible to fatal and serious injury compared with vehicle occupants. Although the frequency of accidents involving pedestrians has reduced in recent years, there are still approximately 800 pedestrians killed and 7,000 seriously injured every year in Great Britain. Furthermore, in the late nineties, more than 6,000 pedestrians were fat...

Accident statistics indicate that pedestrians constitute a large share of vehicle-related fatalities worldwide. Due to continuing trends towards urbanization, this proportion can be expected to further increase. Advances in passive safety have already proven their effectiveness, but since injuries cannot be completely avoided at higher collision speeds a preferred solution is the complete avoid...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Pedestrians contribute to 30-40 per cent of all road traffic injuries in India. However, there is a paucity of literature on pedestrian head injury as compared to two wheeler trauma. The purpose of the present study was to study the pattern of pedestrian injuries and their outcome with a special focus on head injuries. METHODS The study was conducted in two parts in th...