scholarly journals Wildlife Ungulate Rescue and Emergency Services in the Pisa Area (Tuscany, Italy): Evaluation of a 9-Years Period (2010–2018)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Irene Pacini ◽  
Francesca Bonelli ◽  
Angela Briganti ◽  
Simonetta Citi ◽  
Stefania Perrucci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Imaging ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Biochemical Analysis ◽  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Imaging Diagnosis ◽  
Traumatic Injuries ◽  
Car Accidents

Background: We analyzed the clinical data of wildlife ungulates admitted for emergency care to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH), Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pisa over a 9-years period.Methods: Clinical data of all the wildlife ungulates admitted to the VTH were recorded. Blood samples were also taken from the animals for hematological and biochemical analysis. An assessment of ecto- and endoparasites was carried out, diagnostic imaging assessment was performed, and the outcomes were recorded.Results: Data concerning clinical parameters, blood work, parasitological analysis, and diagnostic imaging diagnosis were expressed as prevalence.Conclusion: The rescue and emergency treatments were related mostly to traumas caused by car accidents, followed by other causes. The traumatic injuries were mostly severe, characterized by multiple lesions involving hard and soft tissues. In this study, traffic accidents were the main cause of wildlife rescue and emergency management. This is probably due to the increased population of ungulates over the years, along with the considerable anthropization of the Pisa area.

scholarly journals Study of the Pattern and Frequency of Road Traffic Injuries in Car Occupants in the Eastern Part of Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Davood Soroosh ◽  
Mohammad Nematshahi ◽  
Seyed Alireza Javadinia ◽  
Mitra Hesamifard
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Traumatic Injury ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Traumatic Injuries ◽  
Car Accidents ◽  
Airbag Deployment

Background: Since Iran has one of the highest mortality rates of car accidents in the world, the study of the pattern and reasons of trauma in car occupants can provide useful information to determine the underlying causes of injuries and deaths in traffic accidents. Accordingly, this study was conducted to determine the pattern, frequency, and causes of traumatic injuries caused by traffic accidents in car occupants.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted during the first 6 months of 2017 in Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Sabzevar City, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. The data were obtained from the medical records of patients and the checklist designed by our research team. Results: During the period of study, 300 people were involved in car accidents, of whom 58.3% were men with an average age of 35.16 years. In both sexes, 29.3% of the subjects were in the age group of 30-40 years. Twenty-two car occupants were involved in non-injury car accidents. No significant relationship was found between traumatic injuries and variables of sex, seatbelt use, airbag deployment, and the seat occupant in the cars (P>0.05), as well as between death and variables of sex, airbag deployment and seat occupant in cars (P>0.05). But there was a significant relationship between death and fastening seat belts (P=0.003). Conclusion: The results of this study revealed that sex, airbag deployment, and seat occupant had no effect on traumatic injury or mortality rate in the car occupants. However, fastening the seatbelt can reduce the mortality rate in car occupants, but it does not impact the traumatic injuries rate.

LORE: a model for the detection of fine-grained locative references in tweets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás José Fernández-Martínez ◽  
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Carlos Periñán-Pascual ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Services ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
Car Accidents ◽  
Location Detection

Extracting geospatially rich knowledge from tweets is of utmost importance for location-based systems in emergency services to raise situational awareness about a given crisis-related incident, such as earthquakes, floods, car accidents, terrorist attacks, shooting attacks, etc. The problem is that the majority of tweets are not geotagged, so we need to resort to the messages in the search of geospatial evidence. In this context, we present LORE, a location-detection system for tweets that leverages the geographic database GeoNames together with linguistic knowledge through NLP techniques. One of the main contributions of this model is to capture fine-grained complex locative references, ranging from geopolitical entities and natural geographic references to points of interest and traffic ways. LORE outperforms state-of-the-art open-source location-extraction systems (i.e. Stanford NER, spaCy, NLTK and OpenNLP), achieving an unprecedented trade-off between precision and recall. Therefore, our model provides not only a quantitative advantage over other well-known systems in terms of performance but also a qualitative advantage in terms of the diversity and semantic granularity of the locative references extracted from the tweets.

Thumb Injuries and Instabilities. Part 2: Spectrum of Lesions

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (02) ◽  
pp. 355-365
Author(s):  
Alain G. Blum ◽  
Marnix T. van Holsbeeck ◽  
Stefano Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Metacarpophalangeal Joint ◽  
Resonance Imaging ◽  
Ligament Injuries ◽  
First Line ◽  
Collateral Ligament ◽  
Traumatic Injuries ◽  
Line Imaging

AbstractThe motor function of the thumb and its alignment with regard to the hand make it particularly vulnerable to trauma. Pathology encountered in this joint is varied, and imaging techniques play a crucial role in the diagnosis and characterization of injury. Despite advances in imaging technology, acute thumb injuries remain a challenge for radiologists. Currently, standard radiography and ultrasonography are frequently used first-line imaging techniques. Computed tomography is most often indicated for complex fractures and dislocations. Magnetic resonance imaging may be used to optimally characterize soft tissues and bone marrow. In this article, we cover the most common traumatic injuries: fractures, dislocations, collateral ligament injuries of the metacarpophalangeal joint, as well as soft tissue lesions.

scholarly journals Gravity of injury and analgesia in patients who suffered traffic accidents

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Calil ◽  
Cibele Andrucioli de Mattos Pimenta
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Outer Surface ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
World Health ◽  
Analgesic Drugs ◽  
Body Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
Reference Hospital

OBJECTIVE: Identifying the frequency and gravity of injuries in patients who suffered accidents in traffic and the analgesic drugs utilized. METHODS: Retrospective study, with a sample of 200 medical records of patients admitted to the emergency services of a reference hospital for trauma care. The gravity of the injuries was characterized by anatomic gravity rates and the analgesic therapy was based on the World Health Organization's Analgesic Ladder. RESULTS: The main findings pointed to injuries in limbs, head, face and outer surface as the most frequent, and, in 85% of the cases, gravity was equal or lower than 3; As for analgesia, it was verified that 46;6% of the patients received dipyrone and paracetamol. Among the opioids, meperidine was used in 10.4% of the cases. CONCLUSION: The gravity of most injuries was equal or lower to 3, indicating injuries of light, moderate and serious gravity, located especially in four body regions; regarding analgesia, dipyrone was shown to be the most commonly-used drug and a low use of opioids was verified.

scholarly journals Magnetic resonance imaging in traumatic injuries of the ankle joint in children

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 266-271
Author(s):  
N. Yu. Serova ◽  
T. A. Akhadov ◽  
I. A. Melnikov ◽  
O. V. Bozhko ◽  
N. A. Semenova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ankle Joint ◽  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Diagnostic Value ◽  
Ankle Injuries ◽  
Deltoid Ligament ◽  
Anterior Talofibular Ligament ◽  
Mri Findings ◽  
Traumatic Injuries ◽  
Sport Activities ◽  
Bone Fragments

Introduction. Sprain of the ankle joint is one of the most common injuries in children during sport activities. Purpose. To define MRI diagnostic value in ankle joint injuries. Material and methods. 30 patients , 18 boys and 12 girls aged 8-17 ( average age 14.6 years), were enrolled into the study. 20 of them (66.7%) were 12-14 years old, 3 (10%) - < 10 years old and 7 (23.3 %) - > 14 years old. A Philips AchievadStream 3.0 Tesla scanner was used for MRI examination. Results. MRI findings showed that 17 (56.7%) patients had damage of the anterior talofibular ligament; 8 patients had avulsion of bone fragments of the lateral ankle; 9 patients (30.0%) had partial deltoid ligament injuries. Complete rupture of ligaments was rare and was seen only in two patients (6.7%). Conclusion. MRI is a method of choice in assessing ankle injuries due to high contrast of soft tissues, high resolution and multi-planar potentials. MRI is especially useful in examining soft ankle tissue structures such as tendons, ligaments, nerves and fascia, as well as in revealing hidden / subtle bone damage.

scholarly journals Septic complications in patients with neck wounds

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-66
Author(s):  
M.Yu. Sizyi
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Neck Trauma ◽  
Septic Complications ◽  
Traumatic Injuries ◽  
Results Of Treatment ◽  
Car Accidents ◽  
The Social ◽  
Surgical Tactics

Nowadays, we have been a steady increase in injuries as the social conditions of life and have changed. Statistically found that 54.0 % of people of car accidents have injuries to the head and neck. According to the literature, mortality in patients with neck injury which is complicating by pyoinflammatory persists up to 30.0-76.0 %. The management of neck trauma can be challenging and sometimes overwhelming, as this anatomical region contains many vital structures. These structures may pose a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. Our research based on the results of diagnosis and treatment of 124 patients with a purulent mediastinitis, complicating traumatic injuries of the neck organs. Among these men – 92 (74.2 %), women – 32 (25.8 %). The results of treatment depend on timely diagnosis, hospitalization in a specialized compartment and conducting active surgical tactics

scholarly journals Evaluating the Management Information System of Integrated Medical Emergency Care in Batang Regency, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (07) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Wahyu Sulistiadi ◽  
Siti Nurhidayah ◽  
Al Asyary
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Emergency Care ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Central Java

An emergency can happen anywhere and anytime, especially in developing countries with a high potential for emergencies, such as Eastern European countries as well as Indonesia. This study aimed to find out the quality of PSC 119 Si Slamet as a prehospital emergency service innovation. The data collection in this study was carried out in a location, namely, Batang Regency, Indonesia, in May–June 2018. The qualitative data collection methods used in this study are in-depth interviews and document reviews. This study was using Service Quality (Servqual) questionnaire. The results show that PSC 119 Si Slamet provides easy access to emergency services to the community 24 hours a day and 7 days a week by simply calling 119 numbers, sending messages via SMS and WhatsApp, or using the Android-based application, with a maximum response time target of 10 minutes. Batang is one of the regencies (rural area) in Central Java province, located on the main coastline, with a hilly geographic condition with many derivatives, climbs, and sharp curves, which is one of the causes of the high number of traffic accidents in the area. This emergency care information systems, with Android-based application, was aimed at improving the quality of services in the health sector, especially emergency services. This service is of good quality as seen from the tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy dimensions. However, in the implementation, the socialization aspect is not the best to some people. The recommendation given was the need to increase the PSC 119 socialization of Si Slamet not only regionally but also internationally to be massive, especially in developing countries.

scholarly journals Epidemiology of traumatic injuries to the permanant incisors of 9-12-years-old school children in Damascus, Syria

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 291-301
Author(s):  
N. Al Beiruti ◽  
W. Marcenes ◽  
D. Tayfour ◽  
S. Issa
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Traumatic Injuries ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Dental Injuries

This cross-sectional survey was carried out to assess epidemiological data concerning dental injuries to the permanent incisors of Syrian children. It included 1087 children aged 9 to 12 years, of both sexes, randomly selected from public and private primary schools in Damascus. The response rate was 100%. The prevalence of traumatic injuries to the permanent incisors rose from 5.2% at the age of 9 years to 11.7% at the age of 12 years [P = 0.007]. The difference in prevalence between boys and girls was not statistically significant [P > 0.05]. The majority [59.8%] of children who had experienced injuries to the permanent incisors reported that they were not taken to the dentist for evaluation or treatment of the damage. Among those children who had experienced traumatic injuries to the teeth 93.1% presented with untreated damage. Because some injuries were minor, such as small enamel fractures, the proportion of children who needed treatment was 63.2%. There was a tendency for children with an incisal overjet greater than 5 mm to have experienced dental injuries [P = 0.06]. Children with inadequate lip covcmgc were more likely to have experienced dental injuries than those with adequate lip coverage [P = 0.000]. The most common reported cause of iniuries to the permanent incisors was violence [42.5%], followed by traffic accidents [24.1%] collisions with people or inanimate objects [16.0%] and falls [9.1%]. In conclusion, traumatic dental injury may pose a serious dental public health problem.

scholarly journals Different Treatment Modalities followed by Dental Practitioners for Ellis Class 2 Fracture – A Questionnaire-based Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Jerry Jose ◽  
Ajitha P. ◽  
Haripriya Subbaiyan
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Sports Injuries ◽  
Dental Trauma ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Traumatic Injuries ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Dental Practitioners ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

Introduction: Dental trauma is one of the most commonly seen injuries involving teeth and surrounding structures. The frequent causes of dental trauma are usually falls, traffic accidents, fights and sports injuries. Rapid treatment can prevent long-term damage to the orofacial structures and save the teeth. Ellis class 2 fracture is classified as the involvement of enamel and dentin excluding pulp. Dental practitioners are used to treating Ellis class 2 fracture very often in their dental practice and is usually considered as a dilemma among dental practitioners for the different treatment modalities followed for treatment of Ellis class 2 fracture. A survey is done among dental practitioners to assess the different treatment modalities followed by them in the case of Ellis class 2 fracture. Materials and Methods: A survey was done among 380 dental practitioners in the Chennai region in which 360 dental practitioners responded. The survey was distributed through electronic media and other means of communication. The survey data was collected, analysed and interpreted. Results: The results suggested that about 90% of dental practitioners had adequate knowledge and attitude towards the management of dental traumatic injuries. However, the practical application of the different treatment modalities was seen to be varied among dental practitioners. Based on this survey it was clear that majority of the dental practitioners in Chennai have good knowledge, attitude but there was a lack of clinical practice regarding the different treatment modalities followed by general practitioners for Ellis class 2 fracture. Conclusion: The survey shows that dental practitioners have a sound knowledge, attitude, but the practical application of the various treatment modalities available was seen to vary among various dental practitioners for Ellis class 2 fracture.

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