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Countermeasures to the problem of accidents to intoxicated pedestrians. - Hutchinson TP, Kloeden CN, Lindsay VL.
A substantial part of the pedestrian accident problem arises from intoxicated pedestrians. Possible countermeasures are reviewed, organised into: (a) prevention of high levels of intoxication in pedestrians, (b) minimising pedestrian activity in the intoxi...
Age-Related Slowing: Perceptuomotor, Decision, or Attention Decline? - Godefroy O, Roussel M, Despretz P, Quaglino V, Boucart M.
Age-related slowing is well documented but its origin remains unclear. A first validation study (Study 1) performed in 46 participants examined the effect of attention allocation (manipulated through a dual task) on various portions of individual simple re...
First nationwide study on driving under the influence of drugs in Switzerland. - Senna MC, Augsburger M, Aebi B, Briellmann TA, Donzé N, Dubugnon JL, Iten PX, Staub C, Sturm W, Sutter K.
In Switzerland, a two-tier system based on impairment by any psychoactive substances which affect the capacity to drive safely and zero tolerance for certain illicit drugs came into force on 1 January 2005. According to the new legislation, the offender is...
The association of compensation on longer term health status for people with musculoskeletal injuries following road traffic crashes: Emergency department inception cohort study. - Littleton SM, Cameron ID, Poustie SJ, Hughes DC, Robinson BJ, Neeman T, Sm
OBJECTIVE: To compare the health status of people claiming compensation for injuries sustained in road traffic crashes (RTC), with people who do not claim compensation. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Australian Capital Territory, Australia and ...
Thoracic Spine Injury after a High-Speed Motor Vehicle Crash. - Tilney P.
In late October, a hospital-based flight team was activated at 9:30 pm for an approximately 30-year-old man involved in a high-speed motor vehicle crash into a tree. Per emergency medical services (EMS) documentation, flight service was requested for advan...
Two non-probabilistic methods for uncertainty analysis in accident reconstruction. - Zou T, Yu Z, Cai M, Liu J.
There are many uncertain factors in traffic accidents, it is necessary to study the influence of these uncertain factors to improve the accuracy and confidence of accident reconstruction results. It is difficult to evaluate the uncertainty of calculation r...
Use of a Structural Deformity Index as a Predictor of Severity among Trauma Victims in Motor Vehicle Crashes. - Díez DR, Otano TB, Bermejo Fraile B, Louis CJ, Ramirez JR, Sucunza AE.
Background: Information obtained from vehicle crash scenes, called kinematics, may prove useful in the management of victims and may complement anatomical and physiological findings. Objectives: In addition to analyzing the significance of age, gender, pos...
Use of single-vision distance spectacles improves landing control during step descent in well-adapted multifocal lens-wearers. - Timmis MA, Johnson L, Elliott DB, Buckley JG.
Purpose: Epidemiological research has shown that multifocal spectacle wearers (bifocal and progressive addition lenses, PALs) are more than twice as likely to fall compared with non-multifocal spectacle wearers with this risk further increasing when negoti...
Comprehension and hazard communication of three pictorial symbols designed for flight manual warnings. - Erdinc O.
Military flight manuals contain three types of warnings; WARNING, CAUTION and NOTE messages convey personal injury or loss of life hazards, material damage hazards and essential information respectively. Effectiveness of these warning messages is crucial f...
Effect of varying two key parameters in simulating evacuation for subway stations in China. - Jiang CS, Yuan F, Chow WK.
With the rapid development in economics, subway systems have been constructed in many big cities of China. Computer evacuation models developed overseas are commonly applied in working out safety management scheme. However, input evacuation parameters are ...
Trauma in Pregnancy: A Systematic Approach. - Mirza FG, Devine PC, Gaddipati S.
Trauma in pregnancy remains one of the major contributors to maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Potential complications include maternal injury or death, shock, internal hemorrhage, intrauterine fetal demise, direct fetal injury, abruptio place...
