Head injury is one of the most important types of injury and is responsible for most of the deaths due to trauma. Low-income and middle-income countries face with more risk factors, but they still lack adequate health-care capacity to deal with complications. Trauma literally means the damage and injury, and head injury was defined as physical damage to the brain or skull caused by external for...

objective: to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall injuries in east azerbaijan, iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was based on hospital information system (his) data for patients referred to the imam reza hospital between 2008 and 2013. we recorded the demographic characteristics and epidemiological patterns of patients who were admitted to our center due to...

background : falls are important causes of mortality and morbidity in urban areas and put a high burden on societies. we investigated patterns of fall traumas and related factors in a referral trauma hospital in tehran, iran. methods: in this routine-data-based study, all documents of fall cases in hazrate-rasool hospital, tehran, iran, during october 2014-2015 were investigated. information on...

conclusions tram tracks on public roads are potentially dangerous and can lead to serious injuries and even mortality amongst cyclist. operative intervention is frequently needed. background in cities with trams as public transportation, tram tracks are often on public roads, creating a shared road situation with other road participants like cyclists. beside the risk of direct collisions, this ...

Three child fall issues have been selected by VISU for special focus because of the major contribution they make to serious fall injury, and their preventability: (1) playground equipment fall injury (26% of fall injury hospital admissions); (2) furniture-related fall injury: chairs, beds, tables and other furniture (11%); and (3) fall injury involving ice skates, skis, roller skates, skateboar...

STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS’ MISSION AND STRATEGIES State health departments have traditionally worked in many areas of public health, including injury prevention (1). The public health approach toward injury and disease prevention directs programs to examine surveillance data and then design, implement, and evaluate strategies to address problems, such as falls among older adults (1, 2). The emph...

UNLABELLED Age-based differences in fall type and neuroanatomy in infants and toddlers may affect clinical presentations and injury patterns. OBJECTIVE Our goal is to understand the influence of fall type and age on injuries to help guide clinical evaluation. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Retrospectively, 285 children 0-48 months with accidental head injury from a fall and brain imaging betwe...

OBJECTIVE To assess fall-related injury risk and risk factors in people with lower limb amputation. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal cohort with follow-up every 6 months for up to 41 months. SUBJECTS Community-dwelling adults with lower limb amputations of any etiology and level recruited from support groups and prosthetic clinics. METHODS Demographic and clinical characteristics were obta...