Head injury in older adults presenting to the ambulance service: who do we convey to the emergency department, and what clinical variables are associated with an intracranial bleed? A retrospective case-control study - Barrett JW, Williams J, Skene SS, Griggs JE, Bootland D, Leung J, Da Costa A, Ballantyne K, Davies R, Lyon RM.
This study aimed to identify whether s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Quantifying the effect of cerebral atrophy on head injury risk in elderly individuals: insights from computational biomechanics and experimental analysis of bridging veins - Abdi H, Sanchez-Molina D, Garc ía-Vilana S, Rahimi-Movaghar V.
The objective of this study was to quantitatively investigate the relationship between cerebral atrophy and the risk of injury in elderly individuals. To achieve this, a sophisticated computational biomechanics approach utilizing finite element analysis wa... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Women Face Higher Odds of Depression After Head Injury Than Men
TUESDAY, Oct. 17, 2023 -- Women are more likely to develop depression after suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI), a new study shows.
The analysis of nine published studies included nearly 700,000 people and found that the risk for depression... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - October 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Associations between head injury and subsequent risk of falls: results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study - Hunzinger KJ, Law CA, Elser H, Walter AE, Windham BG, Palta P, Juraschek SP, Hicks CW, Gottesman RF, Schneider AL.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Falls are a leading cause of head injury among older adults, but the risk of fall occurring after a head injury is less well-characterized. We sought to examine the association between head injury and subsequent risk of falls req... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Head injury due to intimate partner violence: pain severity and interference - Leong SE, Logan TK, Karr JE.
This study examined pain severity and interference in women survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) with and without head injuries (HIs), including women with IPV-related and non-IPV-related HIs. Hypotheses were (1) women with IPV-related H... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
The epidemiology of crib-related head injuries: a ten-year nationwide analysis - Ganga A, Kim EJ, Tang OY, Shao B, Svokos K, Klinge PM, Cielo DJ, Fridley JS, Gokaslan ZL, Toms SA, Sullivan PZ.
INTRODUCTION: Falls from cribs resulting in head injury are understudied and poorly characterized. The purpose of this study was to advance current understanding of the prevalence, descriptive characteristics of injury victims, and the types of crib fall-r... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Predicting head injury metrics during low- to moderate-speed frontal collisions using computational simulations - Jeffs SB, Nolasco LA, Petroskey KJ.
OBJECTIVES: Subjective reports of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are common following low-energy motor-vehicle collisions. Biomechanical analyses are useful in providing a quantitative means for determining the likelihood of sustaining mTBI. While occu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Precision concussion management: approaches to quantifying head injury severity and recovery - de Souza DN, Jarmol M, Bell CA, Marini C, Balcer LJ, Galetta SL, Grossman SN.
Mitigating the substantial public health impact of concussion is a particularly difficult challenge. This is partly because concussion is a highly prevalent condition, and diagnosis is predominantly symptom-based. Much of contemporary concussion management... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Assessment system for child head injury from falls based on neural network learning - Yang Z, Tsui B, Wu Z.
Toddlers face serious health hazards if they fall from relatively high places at home during everyday activities and are not swiftly rescued. Still, few effective, precise, and exhaustive solutions exist for such a task. This research aims to create a real... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Spatio-temporal analysis of head injuries in northwest Iran - Soleimani M, Bagheri N.
Head injury (HI) is one of the common external causes of trauma-related mortality among young people in the world. The incidence of HI differs from one region to another according to socio-economic and geographical factors. Given this, the present study ai... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Understanding head injury risks during car-to-pedestrian collisions using realistic vehicle and detailed human body models - Gunasekaran K, Ul Islam S, Mao H.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and long-term disability in road traffic accidents (RTAs). Researchers have examined the effect of vehicle front shape and pedestrian body size on the risk of pedestrian head injury. On the other h... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Harriet Tubman's hypersomnia: insights from historical and medical perspectives - Balmuth EA, Scammell TE.
Harriet Tubman, a hero of the abolitionist movement and early civil rights advocate, suffered a head injury in childhood and subsequently developed sleep attacks associated with visions that were extensively documented in historical accounts. Her contempor... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Inflicted head-injury by shaking-trauma in infants: the importance of spatiotemporal variations of the head's rotation center - Schiks LAH, Dankelman J, Loeve AJ.
Inflicted head injury by shaking trauma (IHI-ST) in infants is a type of abusive head trauma often simulated computationally to investigate causalities between violent shaking and injury. This is commonly done with the head's rotation center kept fixed ove... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Repetitive head injury and cognitive, physical, and emotional symptoms in women survivors of intimate partner violence - Karr JE, Leong SE, Ingram EO, Logan TK.
Many women survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) experience repetitive head injuries in their lifetime, but limited research has examined the cumulative effects of multiple head injuries on post-concussion symptom severity in this population. This s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Head Injury Linked to Increase in Incident Ischemic Stroke
FRIDAY, Sept. 15, 2023 -- Head injury is associated with an increased risk for incident ischemic stroke, with evidence of a dose-response association with the number of head injuries, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 15, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
