OBJECTIVES The authors estimated the associations between transient risk factors and laceration injuries in workers at two meatpacking plants in the Midwest. METHODS The case-crossover design was used to collect within-subject transient work task and personal-level exposure information. RRs of laceration injuries were estimated by comparing exposures during the 'hazard' period (just before th...

Introduction: Lid laceration is a very common peri-ocular trauma. Regarding the etiology and treatment, it lacks studies in developing nations including Nepal.
 Aims: To assess etiological characteristics treatment outcomes of eyelid laceration.
 Methods: In this study, 47 cases traumatic were consecutively studied its epidemiology, outcome evaluated.
 Results: The patients inclu...

The authors present a case of a pneumatocele associated with blunt trauma in a child. An 11-year-old boy was admitted to the emergency department after he was knocked over and his chest was trapped under a soccer goal. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed several cavities in the lobes of both lungs. The CT of the abdomen revealed traumatic laceration of the liver. The patient was treated con...

BACKGROUND Fourth-degree perineal lacerations are an uncommon, unpredictable injury that family physicians may face. METHODS After a needs assessment and feasibility review, we developed goals, objectives, instructional tools, and a feedback survey for a curriculum using a novel model to simulate perineal laceration repair. RESULTS Fifty-six learners evaluated the session, expressing increa...

Liver is a common solid organ inju red in a blunt abdominal injury; frequently inflicted by motor vehicle accidents (MVA). Whilst most low grade liver injury is managed conservatively, operative approach remains an option in many cases, notably liver packing. A 15 year-old Malay, male who sustained a blunt abdominal inju ry and fractured left clavicle with no loss of consciousness was referred ...

Use of genetically modified mice enhances our understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying several neurological disorders such as a spinal cord injury (SCI). Freehand manual control used to produce a laceration model of SCI creates inconsistent injuries often associated with a crush or contusion component and, therefore, a novel technique was developed. Our model of cervical laceration SCI ...

OBJECTIVE An increased risk of bleeding is observed in patients receiving activated protein C (APC), which may be a limiting factor for the application of novel APC therapies. Since APC's therapeutic effects often require its cytoprotective activities on cells but not APC's anticoagulant activities, an agent that specifically antagonizes APC's anticoagulant effects but not its cytoprotective ef...