INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND The purpose of the eye casualty clinic (ECC) is to manage patients with ocular emergencies, however a large number of patients attended the eye casualty clinic did not have an acute problem and could have been treated by their General Practitioner (GP) or referred to the eye outpatient clinic. AIM To identify the number of patients attending the ECC every day and their...

OBJECTIVE To produce a casualty profile for the Manchester bombing and to illustrate the potential uses of such templates in major incident planning. METHODS A retrospective review of casualty notes from the Manchester bombing. RESULTS A complete anonymous casualty profile for the Manchester bombing is given with AIS90 coded injuries. The majority (129, 62%) of casualties sustained minor in...

Even if no protected regions are currently defined around the Sun-Earth libration points, missions in these orbits still have to be compliant with Space Debris Mitigation guidelines, for example for what concerns the casualty risk in case of re-entry. Past studies on the re-entries from libration orbits were carried out by performing a limited sensitivity analysis of the casualty area to the va...

conclusions extremity injuries especially open fractures of lower limbs account for the majority of hospitalized victims. compartment syndrome is one of the main problems that should be addressed. our study demonstrates that people still need more education regarding earthquakes and the government should direct more attention to this issue. results in this study, there were 105 females (52.5%) ...

There have been considerable changes in every branch of medicine since the in' ception of the Health Act, and in no branch is this more obvious than in the casualty departments of our hospitals throughout the country. There are many reasons changes and some of the main ones are discussed under three main headings. Firstly the public have changed in their attitude to the hospitals. The nearby in...

In mass casualty incidents (MCIs) such as earthquakes, medical resources are overwhelmed by the number and severity of casualties. In this paper, we propose a wireless communication service platform in such situations for advanced rescue operations named eTriage. For this purpose, we have developed electronic triage tags by combining a small vital sensor with a wireless device. The electronic t...

This report presents results of an evaluation of the Strip Shopping Centre Program that commenced in 2003. It involved the treatment of eighteen strip shopping centres that were identified based on their poor crash history. The purpose of the study was to establish the effectiveness of the program in terms reductions in all types of casualty crashes and casualty crashes involving pedestrians th...

Emergency care for eye complaints is provided both by accident and emergency (A&E) departments as well as by dedicated eye casualty departments. This study examines the role of each type of department and the quality of eye care provided. Significant differences were found between the accident and emergency department and the eye casualty department in the history, examination and management of...

Tell us something of your background and early training I was bought up in Yorkshire, and trained at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Thomas’, qualifying in 1966. My first experience of casualty was as a house physician in Scarborough. On my first weekend there was a phone call for Dr Yates—at Thomas’ they rather pretentiously called house surgeons Mister, so this was my first week of being a...

In Hong Kong, the first casualty department was established in 1947 at Queen Mary Hospital, at which time its main roles were to take care of three patient groups: accident victims, police cases, and civil servants.1 In the 1950s, local casualty departments might have been regarded as first-aid stations. As population grew, in the 1970s hospitals as well as their casualty departments became ver...