Objective: Penetrating abdominal trauma secondary to bamboo stick injury is a rare entity in the developed world. Most of such kind trans penetrating associated with multiple solid and hollow viscus injuries. In developing countries like India, where nearly 70% population reside rural areas, it not that uncommon. Aim this report recognition risk factors explain optimum surgical management trans...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence and correlates of needle-stick injury in the health personnel of the Paediatric Department of five university-affiliated hospitals in Tehran, from April till June 2009. METHODS Cross-sectional questionnaire survey. Physicians undergoing paediatric training and nurses working in the paediatric departments filled up a pre-designed questionnaire. Relevant variab...

the health and therapeutic employees are facing with some particular hazards. the existing insurance system has a lot of different shortcomings. determination of the frequency and type of accidents in a hospital was the main objective. all accidents were recorded and the study period was divided in to 3 periods. the victims who reported their accident were classified from personality point of v...

herein, we described the first case of self-inoculation in a veterinarian with bovine johne’s disease(bjd) attenuated vaccine in iran that required medical attention. a needle-stick injury to the right thumb of ayoung veterinarian during vaccination of cattle with bjd vaccine resulted in an inflammation that not onlyfailed to resolve but also progressed to a lesion 2.5 cm in diameter. the usual...

Penetrating injury of the skull and brain are relatively uncommon events, representing about 0.4% of all head injuries. Transorbital penetrating brain injury is an unusual occurrence in emergency practice and presents with controversial management. We report the case of a 10-year-old boy who fell forward on a bamboo stick while playing with other children, causing a penetrating transorbital inj...

Ice hockey is a sport enjoyed by many men and women at the spectator and participant level. It is played with high intensity and often involves body contact. Although the women's games is far from injury free, it is the men's game that has drawn criticism for excessive violence. Much attention has been drawn to the serious injuries that have occurred in ice hockey, specifically spinal injuries,...