conclusions more than half of the patients were disabled after 3 months of trauma. elderly patients, patient with severe trauma, and long hospitalization and patients with extremity injuries were high risk for disability. results the mean disability scores at 1 and 3 months post-injury was 30.3 (9.2) and 18.8 (8.3), respectively and there was a statistical significant difference between disabil...

introduction: motor vehicular accidents are one of the leading causes of death in young men and severe complications in all age groups. this study was carried out to evaluate eye injuries secondary to motor vehicular accidents that have a high rate of occurrence in yazd province. methods: this descriptive, cross- sectional study was conducted through case series method. simple sampling, i.e. ce...

recurrent dislocation is not common in small joints. this report presents a new case of chronic recurrent dislocation of proximal interphalangeal joint of the finger in which soft tissue injuries have a role in the dislocation. the patient was a 23 years old man who had referred to our center because of recurrent dislocation of proximal interphalangeal joint of his right ring finger during spor...

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...

o bjective: to describe the epidemiological characteristics of patients with cervical spine injury admitted to rajaee hospital, shiraz, iran. m e thods: this cross-sectional study includes all patients admitted with impression of cervical column injury with or without cervical cord injury from october 2009 to march 2012 to our level i trauma center in shiraz. we recorded the patients’ character...

objectives we aim to evaluate the role of glibenclamide on the short-term outcome of patients with dai due to moderate to severe tbi. patients and methods in this controlled randomized clinical trial, 40 patients with moderate to severe tbi were assigned to glibenclamide (n = 20) and control (n = 20) groups. six hours after admission the intervention group received 1.25 mg glibenclamide every 1...

background ocular trauma is a significant health problem in pediatric patients. objectives the aim of this study was to analyze the characteristics of ocular-trauma-related hospitalization of children in kashan. patients and methods this descriptive, cross-sectional study included 131 children aged less than 16 years with ocular trauma, who were admitted to the matini hospital at the kashan uni...

tracheobronchial injuries are uncommon and their successful diagnosis and treatment often requires high level of suspicious. surgical repair should be individualized for each type of injury. this article reviews diagnosis and management of traumatic injuries to the trachea and major bronchi. from march 1991 to march 2003, twenty-seven patients with major airway trauma were managed in nemazee ho...

conclusion our study emphasizes the importance of the preventive strategies for falls in the old age group and road traffic injuries in young males. results in total, 73 trauma patients were registered. the mean age was 40.19 (sd 20.34) years and 67.1% of the patients were male. in general, the most common cause of injury was falls (47.9%), followed by road traffic injury (40.8%). assault and e...

background: health-related quality-of-life (hr-qol) may be affected by various factors including injury-related characteristics among individuals with spinal cord injury (sci). however, the impact of the influence of these variables has not yet been fully described in iranian population. here, we assessed the relationships between injury-related characteristics and hr-qol among iranian people w...