Connectivity traumatic brain injury Australia - implementing best-practice research - Fitzgerald M.
There is a disproportionally limited awareness of traumatic brain injury (TBI) among medical professionals and the broader community, which means that people often do not seek or receive best-practice care for brain injuries, particularly mild TBI/concussi...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Using motor vehicle crash records for injury surveillance and research in agriculture and forestry - Shipp EM, Trueblood AB, Kum HC, Perez M, Vasudeo S, Sinha N, Pant A, Wu L, Ko M.
PROBLEM: Fatal injuries in the agriculture, forestry, and fishing sector (AgFF) outweigh those across all sectors in the United States. Transportation-related injuries are among the top contributors to these fatal events. However, traditional occupational ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

UK drug advisers recommended decriminalising possession in 2016, leak reveals
Exclusive: Guardian has seen copy of 27-page report that Home Office attempted to keep confidentialThe UK government ’s official drug advisers privately advocated for a formal repeal of the criminalisation of personal-use drug possession in 2016, a leaked document has revealed.The Guardian has seen a copy of the 27-page pro-decriminalisation report, which the Home Office ignored at the time but then fought a three-year battle to keep confidential after a freedom of information request.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Mattha Busby Tags: Drugs policy Politics David Nutt Science Society UK news Source Type: news

Age is not just a number: the intersection of age, orthopedic injuries, and worsening outcomes following low-energy falls - Ranson R, Esper GW, Covell N, Dedhia N, Ganta A, Egol KA, Konda SR.
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to stratify the age at which older adults are most likely to sustain injuries and major complications resulting from low-energy falls so that fall prevention strategies may be targeted to more susceptible age groups...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

A pediatric level III trauma center experience with dog bite injuries - Mattice T, Schnaith A, Ortega HW, Segura B, Kaila R, Amoni I, Shanley R, Louie JP.
Dog bite injuries often present to Emergency Departments (ED), and between 2001 and 2003, approximately 4.5 million adults and children were injured. Injuries may range from puncture wounds to deep tissue lacerations or avulsions. Deaths have been describe...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Training to improve spatial hearing and  situation awareness when wearing hearing protection - Golob EJ, Nelson JT, Walasek JA, Piedra ET, Mock JR, Adams MJK, Esquivel CCR, Spear CSA.
INTRODUCTION: Hearing protection devices (HPDs) are standard personal protective equipment in military settings, but many service members may choose to not use HPDs because they impair spatial hearing and situation awareness. In an effort to reduce barrier...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news

An overview of road traffic injuries among children in Sweden over 20 years - Klingeg ård M, Kullgren A, Stigson H, Ydenius 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-000042.pdf This register study, focusing on c...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Development of the Preschool Life Impact Burn Recovery Evaluation (PS-LIBRE1-5) profile - Patel KF, Ni P, Surette KE, Rencken CA, Rodr íguez-Mercedes SL, McGwin MB, Fabia R, Tully C, Warner P, Romanowski KS, Palmieri T, Stoddard FJ, Schneider JC, Kazis LE, Ryan CM.
Physical, social, and psychological outcomes have been identified as relevant to the rehabilitation process of children with burn injuries. Existing legacy measures are limited in item content and only cover a few constructs. Condition-specific outcomes ar...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

Striae distensae mimicking physical child abuse - K ılıç S, Fedakar R, Yuksel M.
Differentiating between benign cutaneous manifestations and lesions from inflicted injuries is not always simple. A 14-year boy was admitted to our Forensic Medicine Clinic for the preparation of a medico-legal report requested by the prosecution office. O...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

Factors influencing students' attitudes toward bullying: a multilevel analysis from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taipei - Zhang H, Tang H, Zhang M, Wang F.
The present study investigated how students' attitudes toward bullying were influenced simultaneously by personal and contextual factors in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taipei. Participants included 25,338 students (15-year-olds, from grade 7 to 12) and ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

A 10-year single-burn center review of free tissue transfer for burn-related injuries - Alessandri Bonetti M, Jeong T, Stofman GM, Egro FM.
Skin grafting is the mainstay treatment in burn patients. However, in the scenario of soft tissue deficit along with exposure of critical structures, free flap is the only reconstructive option to provide adequate coverage. The aim of the study is to revie...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

Personal and witnessed cyber victimization experiences among adolescents at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic - Espinoza G.
Personal experiences with cyber victimization among adolescents have been consistently associated with well-being problems. Few studies have examined the impact of witnessing cyber victimization on adolescent well-being. The current study examines adolesce...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

PROTOCOL: Participation in organised sport to improve and prevent adverse developmental trajectories of at-risk youth: a systematic review - Filges T, Verner M, Ladekj ær E, Bengtsen E.
This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The main objective of this review is to answer the research question: What are the effects of organised sport on risk behaviour, personal, emotional and social skills of young people, who either have e...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Risk factors affecting severe thoracic injuries of occupants based on age groups and frontal oblique collisions - Choi D, Kim OH, Kong JS, Choo Y, Lee KH.
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-000081.pdf Frontal collision is the most comm...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Prediction and exploration of contributory factors related to fatigue driving among long-haul truck drivers traveling across India: a tree-based machine learning approach - Rashmi BS, Marisamynathan S.
Introduction Long-haul Truck drivers (LHTDs) have long working hours, insufficient rest, and poor health conditions and often experience fatigue that substantially may lead to crashes and injuries. Despite its potential harmfulness, we have little underst...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news

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