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 ... ...
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... 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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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 ...
The authors report two forensic autopsy cases of pilots who died in glider and ultra-light plane crashes in Aso, Kumamoto and review sky sports accidents in Japan (1981-1997). In the glider crash, sharp abdominal pain due to gallstones in a 78-year-old pilot was a possible cause of the accident. In the ultra-light plane crash, unskillful control of the ...
This descriptive and exploratory study from a quantitative approach aimed to characterize workers who were victims of work accidents related to human body fluids exposure and to evaluate the accident victim care protocol. The population consisted of 48 workers who were victims of work ...
by traditional risk analyses. One way of expressing that is to note that accidents more often are due to usual. Accidents happened as a part of work (which often took place at home), during major building works, when September 15, 1830, when William Huskisson became the first victim of a train accident. The ...
A nuclear accident with radioactive contamination can happen anywhere in the world. Because expert nuclear emergency teams may take several hours to arrive at the scene, local authorities must have a plan of action for the hours immediately following an accident. The site should be left untouched except to remove casualties. Treatment of ...
This article attempts to put into perspective the serious concerns regarding a radiation accident and to provide guidelines for the management of casualties arising from a radiation accident. It is intended primarily for the medical facility that does not have a specific requirement for a radiation accident treatment capability but ...
The TRULS model explains the number of road casualties in Norway, by province and month, by means of a six-layer structure of econometric equations, including car ownership, road use, seat belt use, injury accidents, injury victims, and accident severity ...
The traffic road accidents (ATT) are non-intentional events with an important magnitude worldwide, mainly in the urban centers. This article aims to analyzes data related to the victims of ATT recorded by the Justice Secretariat and Public Security (SEJUSP) in hospital morbidity and mortality incidence at the city of Cuiab�-MT during 2006, using data ...
This U.S. Bureau of Mines report present an analysis of surface coal mining accidents involving mobile equipment for the years 1989 through 1991. Mobile equipment is defined as haulage trucks, front-end loaders, bulldozers, scrapers, and road graders. These five pieces of mining equipment accounted for 20 pct of all surface coal mine accidents and 41 pct ...
This study characterizes burn accidents in the domestic environment and identifies the circumstances of accidents affecting children, adults or elderly people who need supervision or care. Demographic data and burn characteristics of 61 domestic environment burn victims were collected. The family members of 13 children and one aged ...
The following results were obtained in an analysis of the road accidents which occurred in Vienna and its environs over the past ten years with a fatal outcome for the involved pedestrians: 39.3% of the pedestrains who died in an accident had a blood alcohol concentration of at least 0.8%, the average amounting to 2.15%. As many as 60.2% of the male ...
Body components of aviation accident fatalities are often scattered, disintegrated, commingled, contaminated, and/or putrefied at accident scenes. These situations may impose difficulties in victim identification/tissue matching. The prevalence of misidentification in relation to aviation accident forensic ...
Knee joint injuries were found in 214 out of 357 fatal pedestrian victims of traffic accidents (60%). The cross-sections of tibial and femoral epiphyses revealed bone bruises (due to compression and avulsion) and the percentage of victims with knee injuries increased to 80% (in the group of lateral impacts - 94%). The bone bruises in ...
Mayak Production Association (Mayak PA) in the Southern Ural is the first Russian nuclear facility of plutonium production for weapons. Due to the lack of knowledge and experience in operating nuclear facilities, 19 radiation accidents including criticality accidents occurred and 59 individuals developed acute radiation syndrome (ARS) during commissioning ...
A concerted action, termed METREPOL, was accepted by the Commission of the European Communities and was started in December 1997. Its purpose was to develop a new approach to the medical management of radiation accident victims with respect to diagnostic procedures and therapeutic options, based on recognition and evaluation of health impairments after ...
In the paper we wish to emphasise the significance of vehicle driving dynamics analysis in the collision phase and occupant load analysis by means of using a software environment. Thereby we also wish to present the results of the simulation of the course of a traffic accident with nine victims that arose from a collision between an Audi A6 passenger car ...
... the result of radiation accidents or nuclear/radiological terrorism (1). The current lack of radioprotectors and therapeutic agents that are safe, effective and approved for use in victims of accidental or...
The author studied causes of industrial injuries in meat industry of Saratov region. Findings are that frequent causes of accidents include psychophysiologic features of victims and work conditions resulting in fatigue. PMID:15581091
The authors suggested methodic approach to early individual forecasting the probability of skin-burns according to radioactive iodine intake by patients with acute lesions due to combined radiation. PMID:15029673
It is estimated that as many as twenty percent of today's children will have survived the death of a parent by the end of high school; eleven children a day are killed by guns in accidents, suicides, and murders; an average of four students a year die in ...
The lungs of 107 of 118 youths (14-25 years of age), who died in vehicular accidents or were homicide victims, were suitable for pathologic examination, and the extent and severity of Centriacinar Region (CAR) disease was determined. f the 107 youths, 29 (27%) had severe CAR dise...
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During the investigation of fatal transportation accidents, samples from victims are also analyzed for drugs including cocaine (COC), COC is abused by smoking, nasal insufflantion, and intravenous injection, and it is also taken with ethanol. Therefore, i...
... context of accidental or intentional radiation exposures (nuclear ... teeth from the potential victims. Up to now, most studies focused on the ... ...
On September 2nd 1982 one of the employees of the gamma-irradiation facility at Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway entered the irradiation cell with a 65.7 kCi *sp60*Co- source in unshielded position. The victim received an unknown radiation...
The aspects of a radioprotection program to be implanted in hospitals to cases of medical treatment to external and internal contamined people are presented. It is based in the experience acquired in the coordination of radioprotection of the Marcilio Dia...
The five papers in the volume describe analyses of fatally-injured pedestrians and occupants by age, based on traffic accident data. All five were written between June 1983 and May 1988. The topics addressed included fatality odds when drivers of differen...
In the accident with Cs 137 which took place in Goiania, it could be verified that the majority of the victims presented internal and external contamination. In order to minimize deposits in internal organs and tissues and to enhance the excretion of Cs 1...
The case of an electrician who was electrocuted while trouble shooting a 480 volt DC generator that supplied power to a glue machine was examined. The victim worked for a small company that performed industrial electrical wiring and maintenance. The compa...
... of a nuclear accident or a deliberate radiation terrorism event (22). In contrast, radiation mitigation agents would be administered after an incident to victims thought or known to have received a signifi...
Specimens from fatal aviation accident victims are submitted to the FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute for toxicological analysis. During toxicological evaluations, ethanol analysis is performed on all cases. Care must be taken when interpreting a posi...
... is heightened due to the risk of radiological terrorism or radiation accidents (1, 3, 6, 8). Protection ... M. Drouet. Cytokine-based treatment of accidentally irradiated victims and new approaches. Exp. ...
The study examines the manner in which penal and civil liability contribute to the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases and to the compensation of their victims. It surveys the law and practice of countries with different legal systems with r...
The accident of 26 April 1986 in Chernobyl with the immense activity release was a catastrophe which took many victims and will still take many. This fact should not be hidden. This brochure represents an attempt to reflect the poor information from Chern...
The report presents a multi-company, nationwide picture of how personally injured motor vehicle accident victims are under the insured tort liability system. The report contains a staff analysis of personal injury claims of data drawn from the claims depa...
Contents: Etiology of viral hepatitis; Experimental filariasis; Ultrastructural studies of viral hepatitis; Dynamics of aircraft accident victims--computer simulation; Lesions in animals fed enzyme inactivated frozen and irradiated beef; Effects of prolon...
... They treat accident victims suffering facial injuries, place dental implants, care for patients with oral cancer, tumors and ... Press conference discusses wisdom teeth findings Upcoming Events Dental Implant Conference December 1-4, 2011 Chicago, IL More ...
The exhumation of two victims of a light aircraft accident was performed in February 1991 at Oudtshoorn, Cape. The exhumation was ordered by the magistrate on request of the parents of one of the victims who suspected that their son had been wrongly identified at the postmortem examination. At the pre-burial autopsy all the ...
One of the primary reasons of the escalating rates of injuries and fatalities in the construction industry is the ever so complex, dynamic and continually changing nature of construction work. Use of cranes has become imperative to overcome technical challenges, which has lead to escalation of danger on a construction site. Data from OSHA show that crane accidents have ...
A morphological study, macro and microscopical, was made of brain lesions in 120 victims of fatal road traffic accidents. Parahipoccampal hernia, Duret haemorrhage and infarction in the medio-basal occipital lobe, clear evidence of raised intracranial pressure, occurred in 43 (35.8%) patients. The increased intracranial pressure from the head injury is ...
Thousands of young lives are lost every year as a result of accidents, and trauma remains the number one cause of paediatric death. There is a pattern and regularity to children's injury: boys are more often victims than the girls, most injuries occur during the summer months, the pedestrian child has usually been the victim of a road ...
Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashed following takeoff from Reno-Cannon International Airport on 21 Jan. 1985. Sixty-eight persons on board the aircraft perished in the initial crash and resultant fire which followed. Two victims expired as a result of crash injuries within subsequent days and one passenger survived. A community disaster response plan was in place and had been ...
The first case of envenoming by Latrodectus geometricus in Venezuela is described. The accident occurred at the victims home, in Aragua de Barcelona, Anzo�tegui State. The 31-year-old female victim was bitten twice on the left scapular region, in quick succession (within seconds). She developed a hyperactive state of the central, ...
On December 14, 1988, a 41 year old male ironworker died when he fell 25 feet after stepping through a roof opening. The victim had been employed for about 18 years as an ironworker by a small construction firm. The victim was part of an eight person crew...
Guidelines for developing hospital policies and procedures to provide emergency services in cases involving chemical accident victims have been developed. The proposed guidelines are consistent with the standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, hospital internal and external disaster management plans and the recent requirements for ...
The CAL-3D Crash Victim Simulator (CVS) is a powerful tool for the mathematical simulation of automobile crashes. In order to make the CAL-3D CVS easier to use, the User Convenience Package (UCP) was developed. An equilibrium study was performed to provid...
Starting point is the question whether in the official records of fatal road accidents driving while intoxicated is adequately taken into account as a cause. A former investigation with accident data of 1976 yielded a considerable number of undetected and not registered cases. On the basis of the fatal road accidents of the Saarland ...
Statistical evaluation of 737 autopsies of subjects died in road accidents. The victims were divided into basic groups according to the sex, age time of accident and alcohol level in the blood. The results show the fatal road accidents of motocyclists are on a decrease while those of pedestrians are on an increase. ...
The purpose of this work was to further the knowledge of contexts surrounding accidents on the level in occupational situations with a view to proposing suitable actions for the prevention of these accidents. The study, undertaken at three establishments belonging to a national rail transport company, was based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of ...
Hit-and-run pedestrian fatalities are classified as to victim characteristics, accident circumstances and driver characteristics. Over 18,000 pedestrian fatalities are reported in the Fatal Accident Recording System for 1989-1991. Twenty percent of the drivers involved left the accident scene. Children and senior ...
PURPOSE: To present previously unavailable data on the use of stem cell administration to aid recovery of victims of the Chernobyl disaster. On 26 April 1986, an accident at Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant took place during the planned test of one of the safety systems. The diagnosis of acute radiation syndrome (ARS) was confirmed in 134 ...
The authors presented results of postmortem examination in five cases of victims of fatal traffic accidents (four pedestrians and one motorcyclist). Prior to "classic" forensic autopsies, the bodies were examined employing CT imaging. The results are presented in the table along with 3D and 2D CT images. The enclosed CD includes 3D animations. ...
Translated from Russian, this book is a comprehensive account of the events surrounding the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in April, 1986. Grigori Medvedev, a nuclear power expert, presents a book that is full of personal accounts as well as technical information acquired while he worked at Chernobyl. Medvedev gives a day by day account of the events at Chernobyl starting the ...
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Topics discussed include the toxicity and pharmacology of AET in human beings and the use of AET before x irradiation or nitrogen mustard therapy; chemical protection and radiation mutation induction in bacteria and yeast; radiation accidents and treatments used on the accident victims; bone marrow procurement and ...
Problems encountered by a young, unmarried woman who, as a result of a spinal injury in an automobile accident, loses use of all four limbs and requires complex home health care services delivered by a network of health and social service agencies in a rural area of Kentucky. Economic, psychosocial, ethical, preventive, and medical aspects of health care are discussed.
Trauma accounts for nearly half of pediatric deaths in the United States. We reviewed all pediatric trauma-related deaths that occurred over a 5-year period at two Georgia trauma centers to determine the number of trauma deaths in children, mechanism of injury, cause of death, and compliance with safety standards. Of the 69 fatalities, 31 were caused by motor vehicle ...
The Price-Anderson Act, which limits nuclear accident liability, was upheld by the Supreme Court in the case Duke Power Co. and v. Carolina Environmental Study Group. The Court held that the Act was within the constitutional powers of Congress and that it allowed both compensation for injuries and equal protection rights while properly regulating economic interests. A summary ...
Postmortem radiographic examinations in 312 victims of fatal traffic accidents were analyzed with respect to injuries to the cervical spine. Most fractures and dislocations in this group were found to involve the craniocervical junction and the upper two cervical segments. Over half were flexion injuries, one-fifth caused predominantly by extension. ...
A 52 year old male trash collector died after being crushed when a trash collection vehicle ran over him at the town landfill. He was employed by a small municipality. At the time of the accident the victim and two coworkers were dumping the afternoon's c...
During the unloading of pallets of concrete blocks from a truck, a 41 year old truck driver was electrocuted. At the time of the accident, he was operating the controls for the truck mounted crane boom. The victim had driven the truck to a three sided, 5 ...
Postmortem blood samples submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration's Civil Aeromedical Institute (CAMI) from fatal civil aviation accident victims are analyzed for the primary toxic combustion gases carbon monoxide (CO), as carboxyhemoglobin (COHb)...
Road traffic accidents often cause serious physical and psychological sequelae. Specialists of various medical faculties are involved in the treatment of accident victims. Little is known about the factors which might predict psychiatric disorders, e.g. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after accidents and how ...
Internal fixation of fractures is an integral part of health care. However this is a privilege of the developed world. For humanitarian aid internal fixation has always been considered as too prone to infection given the poor hygienic conditions, too specialized, too costly and the infrastructure of so-called developing countries too weak to perform internal fixation successfully. Due to the ...
This descriptive, exploratory study was performed using a quantitative approach to address the profile of victims attended by the Pernambuco prehospital air service. The events were evaluated from August 2007 to July 2008, corresponding to the first year of the hangar working in Recife. In the studied period, 283 event forms were studied, with an average 23 events per month. ...
The objective of this study was to identify the epidemiological profile of elderly victims assisted at the Emergency unit of a university hospital. This is a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study. Data treatment was performed using descriptive statistics, charts and tables. Most victims lived in de Campinas (93.5%) and were females (66.7%) ...
A committee was formed to identify norms and trends in remote control continuous miner crushing accidents as part of US MSHA's efforts to reduce and eliminate these types of accidents. The committee was tasked with collecting, reviewing, and evaluating remote control accident data to identify significant factors that could ...
The paper describes some experience in organizing and delivering specialized emergency health care to children who have suffered during traffic accidents in the Moscow Region, by attracting the forces and means of a disaster medicine service. In May 2004 to October 2008, examinations were made among 615 children, 552 of whom were evacuated to Moscow by intensive care cars (n = ...
A morphological study, macro and microscopical, was made of brain lesions in 120 victims of fatal road traffic accidents. Contusions of the brain were identified in 67 (55.8%) of the patients. The contusions especially affected the orbital surfaces of the frontal lobes (27.8%) and the temporal poles (19.8%). The recent brain contusion was associated with a ...
The report presents the issue of fatal traffic accidents, emphasizing in particular blood alcohol levels in victims involved in such fatalities. According to data provided by the Central Police Headquarters, in recent years, the annual number of traffic accidents in Poland has been in excess of 50000; of this number, more than 10% have ...
Estimating the dose distribution in a victim's body is a relevant indicator in assessing biological damage from exposure in the event of a radiological accident caused by an external source. When the dose distribution is evaluated with a numerical anthropomorphic model, the posture and morphology of the victim have to be reproduced as ...
A preliminary list of ten competency and forty-six sub-competency statements derived from literature and consultation with experts and based on the general areas of clinical performance defined by the National Board of Medical Examiners were the concern of Phase I of this study. Forty-eight experts in nuclear medicine, radiology, radiotherapy, health physics, medical physics, radiation biology, ...
The occupational hazards to which nursing professionals are subject while performing their duties are considerable. This study aims to analyze accidents with cutting and piercing instruments involving the nursing team of a university hospital that occurred between 2002 and 2006 in order to understand the context in which they happened. The use of such information can be a ...
Twelve cases of spinal cord injury (SCI) resulting from recreational off-road vehicle (ORV) accidents seen during a three-year period at a spinal cord injury center were analyzed using structured interviews and record reviews. Seven accidents involved three-wheel all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), one involved a four-wheel ATV, and four involved two-wheel ...
A review of the autopsy reports for 18 of 21 victims in 3 of the 4 nonrigid Navy airship accidents during the period 1955 to 1966 revealed that the patterns of injury, complicated by postcrash entrapment, immersion, or fire, are similar to the injuries observed in the low-speed, low-altitude crashes of rigid airships and of light aircraft. With the renewed ...
A discussion covers the updating of international rules regarding indemnification of victims of oil pollution caused by navigation accidents, including the major provisions of the 1969 Convention which transferred the responsibility and financial liability for the pollution to shipowners regardless of fault on their part, and of the 1971 Convention, which ...
At approximately 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 2008, a fatal accident occurred when Paul David Shepherd (victim), age 44, died because of carbon monoxide poisoning while repairing the engine of a hot water pressure washer. The accident occurred at the...
At approximately 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 17, 2008, Joseph D. Roberts, a 45- year old shuttle car operator with 22 years of mining experience, was fatally injured in a powered haulage accident. The accident occurred as the victim was riding on top of a...
