No abstract available.
Accidents, Traffic*

Traffic accident leaves various traces on vehicle, road or pedestrians and these can be viewed as the failure mechanism of relatively moving obstacles. This paper introduces tribology and fractography, which are the parts of failure mechanics, as a means of theoretical analysis and approaching methods on the traffic accident. Actual specific traces are introduced as illustrations of tribology and fractogrphy. A verified traffic accident is also introduced as a case report.
Accidents, Traffic ; Mechanics

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Accidents, Traffic* ; Aggression*

We conducted a retrospective study on the medical records of patients with traffic accidents in Viet Duc Hospital. Results showed that the mortality rate and traffic accident were increasingly with development of socioeconomy. The mortality rate related with traffic accident was the same as this in Egypt. Most of them were men and ages of 24-45. Motorbike was most frequent cause of traffic accident. The rate of helmet using was low.
Accidents, Traffic ; Wounds and Injuries

Purpose: study particularity of died patients at Viet Duc hospital in 1996. Material - Method: review reports of duty residents (every day), pathological department (monthly report) registered book of General Planning department and medical dossiers. Result: from 1/12/95 to 30/11/96: 458 deaths (52 died before admission), giving overall death rate 2.37%; 91.7% of them are emergent cases. Causes: traumatology 338 cases (73.7%) including traffic injury (81.3%), and pathology condition 120 cases (26.2%). Causes of death: polytraumatology, head injury, hear and vessel operation, biliary infectious shock, portal hypertension, bleeding etc. Conclusion: to reduce mortality rate: amelioration of different units coping with emergency, invest medical equipments. For traffic accident: a movement of combined actions of the police, the ministry of transportation, medical profession is needed to inform the public of prevention (traffic law, helmet wearing,...).
mortality ; Accidents, Traffic

We report a forensic pathology study of 20 cases of road traffic accidents associated with high blood alcohol concentration seen at Central Forensic Medicine Center in 1991. In this period, among 224 traffic accidents blood alcohol concentration examination was carried out only on 32 cases, Age, sex, blood alcohol concentration and organ injuries were presented and discussed.
Accidents, Traffic ; Pathology

Traffic accident (TA) is now increasing and become a great cause of ' hospital overload'. One of its main causes is motocycle. Study was carried out on the traffic accident injury of people using motorcycle arriving at Emergency of Viet Duc Hospital during # 2 months of 1999. 780 cases (2 died before arrival) M: 565 (72.44%), F: 215 (27.56%), median age 32 (1-87), mainly happened during 14h-24 h (70%) at Hanoi 500 (64.1%) outside 274 (35.13%). Traffic accident frequently met at 2 ways streets and highway, with motosize 76-100 ml. There are 1 person and 2 persons on motorcycle at accident time of 563 drivers, 59.1% have licence, 16.7% related with alcohol and only 5.8% with helmet. Treatment: non-admission (discharge after care) 591 cases (75.96%) hospitalization (187-24.03%) principally at 2 departments: Trauma- Orthopady (89 cases 47.59%) and Neurosurgery (81 cases - 43.31%). Surgery: 70 cases. Death 13 (1.67%), back home (to die): 22(2.82%). Motorcycle is a most important vehicle of traffic accident. Main trauma: limb and injury. Main road: 2 ways street and highway (1A+ 5th). Helmet effectively protects people from injury.
Accidents, Traffic ; Wounds and Injuries

No abstract available.
Accidents, Traffic* ; Fistula*

Female urethral injury are very uncommon and encountered during traffic accident, trauma, instrumentation, operation and delivery. Treatment modalities are determined by the level of urethral injury. The result was better in the cases of rapid operative treatment than delayed one. In this report the clinical findings, patterns of injury and surgical managementof 4 cases were reviewed.
Accidents, Traffic ; Female* ; Humans

Introduction: Around 1.35 million people die due to road traffic accidents yearly. In the Philippines, there is an increasing trend of mortality and morbidity caused by road crashes. Objective: The objective of the study is to show the epidemiology of transport and vehicular crash (TVC) cases in the Philippines using the Department of Health (DOH) Online National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (ONEISS) from 2010 to 2019. Methods: We used data from ONEISS, a web-based system to electronically capture injury-related data from health facilities, store data in a centralized and secure location, process and consolidate data, and transform this data into meaningful information. For Transport and Vehicular Crash cases, risk factors such as drug use, alcohol use, mobile phone use, seatbelt, and helmet use are included. There are also data on vehicle type, place of crash, and activity. Descriptive and inferential statistics were computed to explore and analyze the ONEISS dataset, particularly the epidemiology of transport and vehicular crashes (TVC). Results: There were a total of 296,760/894,989 (31%) patients admitted due to transport and vehicular crash (TVC) based on the 10-year data from ONEISS (2010–2019). There was an increasing trend in the number of transport/ vehicular crashes (TVC) during this period, with an average increase of 25.58% cases per year. Most victims were drivers (45.6%), males (72.5%), and from the younger age group (0-30 years old). Fatal crashes were observed to occur from 6:00 pm to 5:00 am while most accidents occurred during leisure activities (32.5%). The highest reported contributing factor was drunk driving (n = 25,537). There was observed low compliance on the use of vehicular safety equipment. The most common types of injuries for the TVC victims were abrasions, contusions, burns, and concussions while the vehicle most involved in TVC was the motorcycle. Motorcycle use was found to be associated with worse emergency room (ER) outcomes (p <.0001) and the highest injury types such as multiple injuries, abrasion, avulsion and burn. Alcohol use was also significantly associated with multiple injuries, abrasion, avulsion, burn, open fracture, open wound, and amputation (p < 0.05). Conclusion The trend of road traffic vehicular crashes affecting mainly the younger population has economic repercussions. Motorcycles are also most involved in crashes, hence, the need for motorcycle safety laws in the country. There is also a need to strengthen current laws and legislation governing road safety and to focus on structuring a systematic post-crash response for both the local government and hospitals throughout the Philippines.
Accidents, Traffic ; Alcoholic Intoxication