Damage-associated molecular patterns and fibrinolysis perturbation are associated with lethal outcomes in traumatic injury - Shimono K, Ito T, Kamikokuryo C, Niiyama S, Yamada S, Onishi H, Yoshihara H, Maruyama I, Kakihana Y.
BACKGROUND: Upon cellular injury, damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are released into the extracellular space and evoke proinflammatory and prothrombotic responses in animal models of sterile inflammation. However, in clinical settings, the dyna...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Decapitation of an agricultural worker by a combine harvester: a case report - Mezzetti E, Spina F, Volonnino G, Santoro P, Manetti AC, Del Duca F.
BACKGROUND: Each year, there are billions of agricultural work accidents involving the operation of tractors, grain augers, harvest combines, power take-off devices, or balers and thrashers. Field accidents of this nature seem more common on afternoons, ju...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Design and development of an objective evaluation system for a web-based simulator for trauma management - Larraga-Garc ía B, Castañeda López L, Monforte-Escobar F, Quintero Mínguez R, Quintana-Díaz M, Gutiérrez.
This study...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Do sport-related concussions later in the season take longer to recover from? - Jo J, Hill TM, Williams KL, Prosak OL, Amedy A, Anesi TJ, Terry DP, Zuckerman SL.
OBJECTIVE: In a cohort of high-school football athletes with sport-related concussion (SRC), we sought to investigate the role of seasonality, defined as time of injury during a season, on recovery. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Regi...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Effect of seat belt use and airbags deployment on clinical outcomes in road traffic injury patients - Kim JH, Park GJ, Shin I, Yong SM, Kim YM, Chai HS, Kim SC, Kim H, Lee SW.
27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Enhanced and Equitable Vehicle Safety for All: Toward the Next 50 Years https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/27/27ESV-000262.pdf Objective: Seat belts and airbags ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Epidemiology and healthcare utilization of First Nations peoples living with spinal cord injury in Alberta: an observational study to explore health inequities - Wegenast BF, Whitten TA, Bakal JA, Bill L, Loyola-Sanchez A.
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective observational cohort study. OBJECTIVES: Estimate spinal cord injury (SCI) prevalence in First Nations and non-First Nations populations and compare healthcare utilization as an indirect marker of health inequities. SETTI...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Ethical and forensic issues in the medico-legal and psychological assessment of women asylum seekers - Tullio V, La Spina C, Guadagnino D, Albano GD, Zerbo S, Argo A.
Asylum-seeking migrants represent a vulnerable segment of the population, and among them, women constitute an even more vulnerable group. Most of these women and girls have been exposed to threats, coercion, and violence of many kinds, including rape, forc...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Euro NCAP's first step toward rider safety with new car-to-motorcyclist scenarios - Damon PM, Garcia A, Palao A.
27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Enhanced and Equitable Vehicle Safety for All: Toward the Next 50 Years https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/27/27ESV-000209.pdf Embedded collision avoidance syste...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Factorial validity and comparability of the six translations of the Rivermead Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire translations: results from the CENTER-TBI study - Zeldovich M, Bockhop F, Covic A, Mueller I, Polinder S, Mikoli ć A, van der Vlegel M, von Steinbuechel N.
BACKGROUND: Comparison of patient-reported outcomes in multilingual studies requires evidence of the equivalence of translated versions of the questionnaires. The present study examines the factorial validity and comparability of six language versions of t...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Factors delaying the continuum of care for the management of traumatic brain injury in low- and-middle income countries: a systematic review - Shakir M, Altaf A, Irshad HA, Hussain N, Pirzada S, Tariq M, Trillo-Ordonez Y, Enam SA.
BACKGROUND: Considering the disproportionate burden of delayed traumatic brain injury (TBI) management in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs), there is pressing demand for investigations. Therefore, our study aims to evaluate factors delaying the conti...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Geographical distribution of neurosurgeons and emergency neurosurgical services in Pakistan - Bakhshi SK, Shah Z, Khalil M, Khan Mughal MA, Kazi AM, Virani QUA, Jooma R, Dewan M, Shamim MS.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: According to the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS), a minimum neurosurgery workforce density should be 1 per 200,000 population for optimum access to neurosurgical care. Pakistan lags behind in the number of neur...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Geospatial assessment to improve time to treatment (GAITT) - McDonough MM, Benoit PJ, Jarman MP, Remick KN.
Introduction Geographic information systems (GIS) can optimize trauma systems by identifying ways to reduce time to treatment. Using GIS, this study analyzed a system in Maryland served by Johns Hopkins Suburban Hospital and the University of Maryland Cap...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

High-energy blunt pelvic ring injury incidence and polytrauma caseload in a single level I trauma center during COVID-19 related pseudo-lockdown measures: a retrospective cohort study based on a prospective registry - Morello V, Zingg M, Andereggen E, Ansorge A, Valisena S, Gamulin A.
BACKGROUND: Pelvic ring injuries are potentially lethal lesions associated with polytrauma patients and need an efficient trauma team for their management. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of high-energy blunt pelvic ring injuries an...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Human trafficking education: an asynchronous approach to improve nurses' knowledge and application - Capodilupo C, Klein CJ, McGarvey J.
Nurses as healthcare professionals are in key positions to identify trafficked persons. Assessment of nurse knowledge shows the benefit of using asynchronous human trafficking education as a means for learning. Recommendations from this study for professio...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Influence of time constants and directional interaction of a kinematics based brain injury metric on its predictive capability of brain strain response in car crashes - Toshiyuki Y.
27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Enhanced and Equitable Vehicle Safety for All: Toward the Next 50 Years https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/27/27ESV-000183.pdf Among the studies focusing on crit...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

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