INTRODUCTION Penetrating injuries of the hand with various sharp objects have previously been reported. In this report we describe an unusual penetrating injury of the hand caused by a door handle. CASE PRESENTATION A 32-year-old woman presented with a door handle stuck into her hand. After a preliminary assessment she was immediately taken to theatre. Broad spectrum antibiotics were administ...

Thoracic traumas have an important place among all injuries as they can cause significant mortality and morbidity. The thoracic injuries are the large part of trauma with head and extremity injuries. Thoracic traumas are divided into two groups, including penetrating and blunt. The primary causes for penetrating traumas are wounds caused by gunshot and sharp objects. The lungs are the most inju...

Removal of sharp foreign bodies via upper endoscopy is common; however, management in the setting of distal migration is not well-documented. We report two cases of objects beyond the ligament of Treitz, including successful extraction of a 4.4 cm sewing pin from the cecum using hot biopsy forceps with a protector hood to shield colonic mucosa, and in a separate case, a 3.4 cm glass shard from ...

Peripheral nerve injuries are commonly seen as a result of domestic, industrial, or military trauma. Sharp objects usually cause these nerve injuries. When assessing these injuries, it is important to evaluate each nerves' motor and sensory function. One must be cognizant of associated injuries such as fractures, vascular damage, and musculotendinous lacerations. The time since the injury, leve...

Penetrating injuries to the spine, although less common than motor vehicle accidents and falls, are important causes of injury to the spinal cord. They are essentially of two varieties: gunshot or stab wounds. Gunshot injuries to the spine are more commonly described. Stab wounds are usually inflicted by knife or other sharp objects. Rarer objects causing incidental spinal injuries include glas...

What are the basic visual cues that determine our preference towards mundane everyday objects? We previously showed that a highly potent cue is the nature of the object's contour: people generally like objects with a curved contour compared with objects that have pointed features and a sharp-angled contour. This bias is hypothesized here to stem from an implicit perception of potential threat c...

exposure to blood borne pathogens is considered as a common occupational hazard among health care workers all around the world. the aim of the current study was to investigate the factors associated with needle stick and sharp injuries among health care workers of an academic hospital. the current cross-sectional study of health care workers a teaching hospital designed based on a census sampli...

The purposes of this paper are twofold, namely first to present general criteria for the design of spatial data types that are necessary and valid for the modeling of spatial objects regardless whether we consider objects with sharp or undetermined boundaries, and second to show how the concepts of a type system for spatial objects with sharp boundaries can be suitably transferred and extended ...

Background and Objective: A needle stick injury is a percutaneous piercing wound typically set by aneedle point, but possibly also other sharp instruments or objects. Needle injuries are more commonamong health workers during night shifts, for less experienced people, fatigue, high work load, highpressure, perception of risk can all increase the chances injury. The present study wasconducted wi...