... in Conflict, Environmental Trade as a Conduit for Crime, Nuclear Issues, Conflict and Environmental Crimes, and Environmental Accidents as Crimes....
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The paper analyzes the role of rehabilitation services for the auto accident victim and examines the problems and potentials of fulfilling this role under existing and alternative insurance arrangement. (Author)
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...respect to deceased victims of accidents. 102.13 Section 102...CIVIL AVIATION United States Aircraft Accidents Abroad § 102.13 Protective...States citizens occurring in an aircraft accident in accordance with the...
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A brief guide to training and equipment needed to effectively manage victims of radiation accidents. (DT)
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A brief guide to training and equipment needed to effectively manage victims of radiation accidents is given.
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The autopsy of aircraft accident victims is an important aspect in the investigation of the accident. Three jurisdictions--the National Transportation Safety Board, the military services and state of local coroners or medical examiners--have authority, un...
During the investigation of aviation accidents, postmortem samples from accident victims are submitted to the FAA's Civil Aerospace Medical Institute for toxicological analysis. To determine if the accident victim was exposed to an in-flight/post crash fi...
... Six occupants (four fatalities and two injured victims) were involved in one accident and five (two fatalities and three injured victims) in another. ...
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A method of caring for patients who have been exposed a peacetime nuclear accident has been described. It show be apparent that the preparation for such an accident and experience of the medical team, if such an accident should occur, would better prepare the medical profession to occur with problems resulting from a nuclear ...
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A medical accompainment program for the victims of the accident in Goiania-Brazil is presented. (L.M.J.). (Atomindex citation 21:089869)
that occur at the site of a natural disaster or an act of terrorism. The care of victims of mass casualty of the project is care of victims of industrial accidents or terrorist attacks with traumatic injuries compli gear must locate, assess, and then transport victims to a decontamination station while avoid ...
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... is not an issue for treatment of accident/terrorism victims, whereas it is a major concern for the ... ...
... In the 1986 Chernobyl reactor inci- dent, 10% of the 237 accident victims received both significant radiation doses and burns. ...
... In the 1986 Chernobyl reactor incident, 10% of the 237 accident victims received both significant radiation doses and burns. ...
The aim of this work was to estimate absorbed doses received by a victim of the radiation accident with a 60Co source in Henan province, China. With a Monte Carlo stochastic simulation method, an estimation method for doses to the radiation accident victim was made. It utilised a mathematical model of adult man ...
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We analyse accidents with victims and calculate the influence of traffic violations on the probability of having a serious or fatal accident, compared to a slight accident. Traffic violations related to speed limitations, administrative infringements or faults related to the driver are considered. Data were ...
The objective of the study was to assess the association between high blood alcohol levels and fatal victims of traffic accidents in the Brazilian Federal District, in 2005. A total of 442 casualties (163 pedestrians, 84 victims of overturns, and 195 of collisions) were studied. Blood alcohol concentration was analyzed in 238 cases ...
Family physicians regularly treat victims of rear-end vehicle accidents. This article describes how taking a detailed history of the accident and understanding the significance of the physical events is helpful in understanding and anticipating patients' morbidity and clinical course. Eight questions to ask patients are suggested to ...
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... accident. In the nuclear power reactor accident at Chernobyl, volatile fission-product radionuclides, such as 134Cs and ... 50). Hematological changes in the victims of the Chernobyl radiation accident wh...
This report describes the 11 year medical course of Harold R. McCluskey, a Hanford nuclear chemical operator, who, at age 64, was involved in an accident in an americium recovery facility in August 1976. As a result of the accident, he was heavily contami...
Based on available sources of information, an assessment is made of the Chernobyl accident fatalities and causes of death that resulted from acute injury effects. Accident victims grouped according to whole body radiation dose and biologic response were e...
...response to� (1) Aircraft incidents and accidents; (2) Bomb incidents...plan of the location of an aircraft accident, the number of persons involved...practicable, for the rescue of aircraft accident victims from...
This training manual for emergency medical technicians, one of 14 modules that comprise the Emergency Victim Care textbook, covers water accidents, electrical emergencies, and hazardous materials and radiation accidents. Objectives stated for the three chapters are for the students to be able to describe: emergency care for specified ...
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The aim of this study was to develop a rapid and simple method for the triage of radiation accident victims, according to the severity of radiation-induced damage, especially when the radiological nature of the accident is recognised late or gives rise to a protracted irradiation. The work was based on the recent radiation ...
In the two accidents described, both fatalities occurred because the victims were wearing only lap belts. One of the victims was piloting an aircraft. These were survivable aircraft accidents and illustrate the inadequacy of this type of harness. Recently promulgated legislation in the United Kingdom should mean ...
Increasing numbers of spinal cord injury victims due to automobile accidents, sports injuries and gunshot wounds reflect a growing need for a paralysis cure. One method under study to alleviate the flight of spinal cord injury victims is the use of microc...
In mass disasters, the main task of the medicolegal expert is to support the victims' identification. As such events are rare, the knowledge obtained during previous operations should be evaluated and published to improve the quality and effectiveness of the identification work in future disasters. This report describes the experience gained at the Institute of Forensic ...
The aim of forensic biomechanics is the reconstruction of traumatic events based on the pathological findings in the victim's morphology, the accident traces and the car damages. The use of forensic documentation tools (e.g. Streifenlichttopometrie) enables 3-dimensional and proportional accurate documentation of the victim's body, of ...
A severe irradiation accident involving a victim occurred in April 2009 in South America. The victim has found a (192)Ir source fallen from a gammagraphy device and has put it in the left pocket of his pants. Very quickly, an erythema and a blister appeared on the left leg of the victim involving hospitalisation. ...
The traumas received by victims in the largest sea catastrophes and accidents, connected with case (hull) damage, overturning and flooding of courts from 1983 to 2010 are considered. It is established that principal views of damages at rescued and victims are sharp hypothermia of light and moderate severity, combined mechanic-cold and ...
... which the ABS has been deployed during avalanche accidents over the last 15 ... avoiding asphyxiation, while understanding that traumatic death may not ... ...
... Symposium - Industry [I World Congress on Chemical and Biological Terrorism ... accident, providing early effective care to victims depends on the ...
... When it arrives at the accident location, the tele-ECG system is placed on the victim at the same minute the paramedic, via radio, asks for ...
independent federal agency charged with determining the probable cause of transportation accidents, promoting transportation safety, and assisting victims of transportation...
... law. The likelihood that someone will commit a crime, be a victim of a crime, or have an accident is higher when that ... giving medication to someone else, it's considered a crime and you could find yourself in court. Reviewed ...
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For the period 1994-2005 in the U.S.A., suicides were less likely to be organ donors than were victims of homicide and motor vehicle accidents. PMID:21117476
... Animals were irradiated with Co gamma rays to simulate the nonuniform irradiation which do occur in victims of radiation accidents. ...
Mar 30, 2004 ... A hockey player needs to know if he'll be sidelined by an ankle injury. Emergency personnel need to assess a car accident victim's injuries ...
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... minimal toxicities. Their use should be considered for victims exposed to radiation as a result of an accident or terrorism or for patients as part of cancer therapy. ... ...
... managing late effects of therapy, radiological accidents and terrorism victims.e. Allied health care professionals (e.g., nurses, ... ...
... used for the mitigation of radiation injury in victims of nuclear accidents or acts of radiological terrorism. The high dose requirements, the pronounced threshold effect, ... ...
... HEMS costs unless the victims have supplementary leisure accident insurance. The purpose of this investigation was to determine ... ...
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Federal agency charged with determining the probable cause of transportation accidents and promoting transportation safety, and assisting victims of transportation...
Advocating and promoting safety recommendation; Assisting victims of transportation accidents and their families. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an...
... on biological dosimetry are included. Apart from direct medical care of radiation injuries, the socioeconomic problems associated with ... some of the recent radiological accidents and the medical care un...
The Federal Aviation Administration's Toxicology and Accident Research Laboratory determines the presence of drugs, volatiles, and primary combustion gases in biological samples from aircraft accident victims and also establishes any medical condition for...
The report consists of an analysis of the attitudes of seriously injured automobile accident victims toward automobile insurance, including a comparison with the attitudes of the U.S. population as presented in 'Public Attitudes Toward Auto Insurance'. (A...
The events that originate the Goiania radiological accident involving the rupture of Cesium 137 source, the source characteristics, the medical aspects related to the triage of victims, the medical attendance, and the special measurements of decontaminati...
... recent increase in the risk of accidents and terrorism involving radiation. ... treating victims of radiation-related accidents. However, few such agents ... ...
and grading code. This is useful as a basis for decision-making in the medical management as it assigns of the severity of damage � the decision on the kind of hospital � the provision of appropriate therapeutic therapeutic procedures it is necessary to assess the state and probable outcome of radiation accident victims
Kitchen ranges played a major role in the 1616 fabric accident case histories recorded in the Flammable Fabrics Accident Case and Testing System as of May 1972. They accounted for 214 or 35% of the direct garmet ignitions in FFACTS. Female victims outnumb...
The case of the electrocution of a worker at a construction site on October 15, 1982 was investigated. The employee at the time of the accident was working for a welding company doing general construction and fabricated steel activities. The victim, a tru...
... possible occurrence after radiation accidents or radiological/nuclear terrorism (5). Antagonism of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), ... for Radiation-Accident Preparedness: The Clinical Care of Victims...
Triamterene, a diuretic drug used in combination with other drugs for the treatment of hypertension, was found in the blood and urine of a fatal aircraft accident victim. The extraction and identification of triamterene is difficult. It exhibits poor extr...
During the investigation of aviation accidents, postmortem specimens from accident victims are submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration's Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) for toxicological analysis. The first, and perhaps most important, s...
During the investigation of aviation accidents, postmortem samples obtained from fatal accident victims are submitted to the FAA's Civil Aerospace Medical Institute for toxicological analysis. During toxicological evaluations, ethanol analysis is performe...
Long term effects of traffic accidents upon nine families in which one or more members were badly injured or killed are described in detail. Information was collected through open-ended interviews with the victims, or in the event of death, with the deced...
The report presents the results of a nationwide survey which identified and quantified the economic consequences of automobile accidents and the sources and amounts of compsensation received by seriously injured or killed victims and their families. (Auth...
... or a medical accident or an act of terrorism, internalization of radionuclides poses a challenge for assessment ... wounds. Although seemingly intended primarily for radiological accident victims (work wa...
The radiological protection measures taken in the general hospital of Goiania (HGG/INAMPS) and in the FEBEM institution, due do the accident involving cesium 137 are described, as well the work of the NUCLEI personnel in the areas of: radiological protect...
Biological samples from the victims of aviation accidents are submitted to the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) for toxicological evaluation. Body components of aviation accident fatalities are often scattered, disintegrated, commingled, contamina...
A prototype kit developed for medical teams engaged in aircraft accident investigation provides all essential items needed: to collect biological samples; to obtain photographic evidence; to record the relative locations of victims and their life support ...
...for requests made by family members of accident victims, when the NTSB has investigated the accident that is the subject of the FOIA request...multiple series of requests for the purpose of avoiding fees, the NTSB may aggregate those...
The aim of this quantitative, descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study was to characterize the distribution and characteristics of motor vehicle accidents related to alcohol consumption. The sample was composed of 62 drivers and pedestrians, over 15 years old, who were involved in motor vehicle accidents involving alcohol, and were attended at the ...
The files of 874 fatal traumatic accident victims, aged 12-25 years, examined at the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office during the period 1978-1988 were reviewed. Postmortem blood alcohol results of individuals who died after less than 15 min of hospitalization were utilized to approximate alcohol levels at the time of the fatal injury. Relationships ...
So far no national or regional studies have been published in Germany regarding the number of fatal aviation accidents and results of autopsy findings. Therefore, we evaluated all fatal aviation accidents occurring in Lower Saxony from 1979 to 1996. A total of 96 aviation accidents occurred in this period involving 73 aeroplanes. The ...
The investigation covers 14 fatal hunting accidents which occurred in North Rhine-Westphalia in the last 23 years, among them 13 firearm fatalities. All the accidents happened during the statutory hunting season reaching a peak in the main small game season. 86% of the persons causing the accidents and 73% of the ...
The procedure carried out for Nuclear Medicine Sector of the Marcilio Dias Hospital in the arrived of the victims more graves of the accident in Goiania are presented. The datas obtained with the services of monitoring realized with the detector DSM-3 of ...
The case of a 30 year old construction worker who was killed at a highway construction site was reviewed. The victim had been employed by a highway construction company for 2 years as a construction laborer. On the day of the accident the victim was worki...
The authors studied MMPI-2 profiles of workers (N = 83) diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a control group comprising workers with chronic pain (N = 40). Significant differences were seen in profiles between the PTSD groups and the control group, and the authors compared the PTSD profiles according to exposure to two different kinds of traumatic incidents: industrial ...
The authors report the case of a death which occurred during wild boar hunting. The scene details revealed that the victim and the beast were aligned in the visual shooting path and the victim had been struck by overpenetrating bullet shot by his friend on the neighbouring stand. The fatal entrance wound was on the victim's left chest. ...
The immediate medical response to the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station involved containment of the radioactivity and evacuation of the nearby population. The next step consisted of assessment of the radiation dose received by individuals, based on biological dosimetry, and treatment of those exposed. Medical care involved treatment of skin burns; ...
The increasing number of accidents associated with off-road motor vehicles used for recreational purposes prompted this prospective study. During 1985 the records of victims of all motor vehicle accidents who were seen at the Hudson Bay Union Hospital, Hudson Bay, Sask., were studied; patients involved in on-road vehicle ...
The authors emphasize the need in coordination when conducting expert examinations in investigation of accidents with a great number of victims. Coordination is of special importance for combined application of molecular-genetic technologies and standard forensic medical investigations. The experience in experts cooperation in investigation of terroristic ...
