Skull fractures in car accidents: Types and Causes

Brain injury may be the result of a sudden blow to the head or head impact. The result is damage at the site of application of force and damage of the remote location. The force acting on the head causes not only local effects through the oppression, but also puts in motion the head, which causes the cranial structuresThe aim of the study was to characterize head injuries with special attention to their types.After regaining consciousness, and coming out of immediate danger of life reveals a number of problems the nature of neurological, psychological and neuropsychological, the latter reveal the disorder is sometimes quite late due to their discrete natureA serious problem is post traumatic stress disorder in the form of fear, helplessness, feelings of constant threat. In extreme cases, they represent a permanent team apical or brain death occurs

Child abuse: will the doctor report?

The phenomenon of child abuse is a very important social issue, not only globally, but also in Poland. There is a silent consent in the Polish society for violence against children. The research presents the issues of the children abuse issue and forms. The most important are: physical abuse, mental abuse, sexual abuse and negligence. Also research presents the legal instruments governing the obligation to report cases of violence against children including medical confidentiality It is still necessary to sensitize the doctors, and especially the paediatricians about the abused child issues, as well as to educate and broaden knowledge in the scope of recognizing such phenomena. The doctors’ involvement and their will to act towards the social and legal direction, by helping the family and the child are also important. In the current situation, reporting of abuse cases and non-medical actions regarding this issue is mainly a moral and professional obligation of a doctor, coming mainly from the care about patient’s health

Epidemiology of road traffic accidents in adults. A systematic review

Road accidents are a serious problem of the modern world. They are one of the main causes of injuries and are the third most numerous cause of death. Every year, about one million people, adults and children, die on the roads and several millions are injured. Mortality rate due to injuries from road accidents amounts to 2,2% of all deaths in the world.The research presents a mechanism of traffic accidents, pathophysiology of injury, partition of car accidents and characterized the insults of victims in various types of automobile accidents.Injuries resulting from road accidents have numerous substantial consequences as they are related with releasing large amounts of kinetic energy which must be absorbed. Kinetic energy absorbing is the basic mechanism of injury arising during road accidents.In apprising an automobile accident should take into consideration the type of the car accident and the extent of damage to the vehicle People participating in road accidents of high energy are especially endangered with substantial injuries. There is a close relationship between the rate of vehicle damages and seriousness of casualties' injuries

The Impact of Fatigue on the Sense of Local and Global Rhythmic Movement

Efficient movement control and the mechanisms responsible for the sense of rhythm are still not fully understood. The purpose of this paper was to estimate the influence of fatigue on the sense of rhythm defined as specific order of movements and their rhythmic perception. It was examined in a holistic way, by analyzing both global and local aspects of the movement. Twenty adult participants (20.2 ± 0.4 years, ten females) took part in the experiment. The fatigue protocol was applied in four blocks, which consisted of 30-s consecutive jumping with 80% of maximal effort. Immediately after each fatigue block, the rhythm performance was evaluated in global and local tests. The global test was based on 45 continuous jumps and was divided into an assisted and an unassisted phase using the Optojump Next System. The local test was performed by bilateral tapping of lower limbs by means of the Vienna Test System. The hypothesis about the significant effect of fatigue on the sense of rhythm was falsified. In particular, we observed the lack of differences between global and local aspects of the movement. Moreover, female participants showed a better sense of rhythm than males. Regardless of the fatigue protocol, participants made larger errors with a lower movement frequency in local rhythmic tasks. The coefficient of variation showed that sex differences were only significant in the unassisted phase of the global rhythmic task. We suggest that movement variability metrics may provide additional information about the sense of rhythm, which should be explored more in future studies, not only dependent on fatigue

Statistical properties of one dimensional Bose gas

Monte Carlo method within, so called, classical fields approximation is applied to one dimensional weakly interacting repulsive Bose gas trapped in a harmonic potential. Equilibrium statistical properties of the condensate are calculated within a canonical ensemble. We also calculate experimentally relevant low order correlation functions of the whole gas

Evacuation of victims in mass events and disasters

The tasks of health in mass events, disasters and emergency Situations ensue from the specific nature of each event, which determines the scale of the needs and difficulties needed to refrain. Emergency medical procedures at the mass event and disasters called the doctrine of conduct mass loss, requires a complete change in thinking and withdrawal from the Generally Accepted Principles of treatment From the efficient organization of the rescue operation depends on the success of the entire treatment process. The aid time and providing the victims of the accident to the hospital usually we decides about the fate of the victim. The article presents the medical rescue activities used during mass accidents and disasters and discusses the Principles of evacuation

Quasicondensation reexamined

We study in detail the effect of quasicondensation. We show that this effect is strictly related to dimensionality of the system. It is present in one dimensional systems independently of interactions - exists in repulsive, attractive or in non-interacting Bose gas in some range of temperatures below characteristic temperature of the quantum degeneracy. Based on this observation we analyze the quasicondensation in terms of a ratio of the two largest eigenvalues of the single particle density matrix for the ideal gas. We show that in the thermodynamic limit in higher dimensions the second largest eigenvalue vanishes (as compared to the first one) with total number of particles as $\simeq N^{-\gamma}$ whereas goes to zero only logarithmically in one dimension. We also study the effect of quasicondensation for various geometries of the system: from quasi-1D elongated one, through spherically symmetric 3D case to quasi-2D pancake-like geometry

Tasks of the hospital emergency department during disasters

Hospital emergency departments with emergency medical teams are the basic units of the National Medical Rescue System. Hospital emergency department is an independent organizational unit within the meaning of the hospital health care facilities, providing the benefits of health care that persons in a state of sudden health threat, satisfying the Requirements of the Act of 8 September 2006 about the National Medical Rescue System. In research presents the procedure of dealing in the situation of a disaster of the hospital emergency department. Characterized in details the mobilization personnel system, the role of hospital emergency staff and hospital staff jobs in emergency department in the situation of disaster

Access to automatic defibrillation at airports on an example of Warsaw Chopin Airport

Sudden cardiac arrest and cessation of blood circulation is the most common cause of death of people around the world. Immediate notification of emergency services and cardiopulmonary resuscitation combined with an automatic external defibrillator (AED) increases the chances of survivors. Warsaw Chopin Airport is the only public place in Poland and the third one in Europe where a complex and integrated life saving system has been implemented in the ICC.The paper presents an analysis of the access to automatic defibrillation at airports at the Warsaw Chopin Airpor

Selektywna rizotomia grzbietowa w leczeniu spastyczności u pacjentów z mózgowym porażeniem dziecięcym

W artykule przedstawiono możliwości wykorzystania selektywnej rizotomii grzbietowej (SDR, selective dorsal rhizotomy) w leczeniu spastyczności u pacjentów z mózgowym porażeniem dziecięcym (MPD). W tym celu dokonano przeglądu literatury, wykorzystując bazy danych Medline, Embase, PEDro, Cochrane. Użyto słów kluczowych „selektywna rizotomia grzbietowa” (selective dorsal rizhotomy) w połączeniu z „mózgowe porażenie dziecięce” (cerebral palsy). Wyniki wybranych przez autorów badań przedstawiono zgodnie z Międzynarodową Klasyfikacją Funkcjonowania, Niepełnosprawności i Zdrowia (ICF, International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health), w domenie struktury i funkcji, aktywności oraz uczestnictwa w życiu codziennym. Podsumowano również wskazania do wykonania zabiegu oraz jego najczęstsze efekty uboczne. Metoda SDR jest interwencją operacyjną, której poziom skuteczności pozwala na jej rekomendację w leczeniu spastyczności. Zabieg SDR pozytywnie wpływa na wszystkie domeny życia pacjentów z MPD opisane w klasyfikacji ICF