Mohammed A. Mamun, Mark D. Griffiths
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John B. Holcomb, Neil R. McMullin, Lisa Pearse, Jim Caruso et al.
In Brief Background: Effective combat trauma management strategies depend upon an understanding of the epidemiology of death on the battlefield. Methods: A panel of military medical experts reviewed photographs and autopsy and treatment records for all Special Operations Forces (SOF) who died betwee...
David J. Williams, Mohd Abul Faiz, Bernadette Abela-Ridder, Stuart Ainsworth et al.
In one of his final essays, statesman and former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said, ‘Snakebite is the most important tropical disease you’ve never heard of’ [1]. Mr. Annan firmly believed that victims of snakebite envenoming should be recognised and afforded greater efforts at improve...
Sarah G. Moxon, Harriet Ruysen, Kate Kerber, Agbessi Amouzou et al.
BACKGROUND: The Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP), launched in 2014, aims to end preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths, with national targets of ≤12 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births and ≤12 stillbirths per 1000 total births by 2030. This requires ambitious improvement of the data on care at ...
Tom Foster, Kate Gillespie, Roy Mcclelland
BACKGROUND: The aim of this part of the Northern Ireland Suicide Study was to investigate the prevalence of DSM-III-R axis I (clinical syndrome) and axis II (personality) disorders among suicides (14 years and older) in Northern Ireland during a one-year period. METHOD: A psychological autopsy study...
Zhi Zhen Qin, Shahriar Ahmed, Mohammad Shahnewaz Sarker, Kishor Kumar Paul et al.
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can be trained to recognise tuberculosis-related abnormalities on chest radiographs. Various AI algorithms are available commercially, yet there is little impartial evidence on how their performance compares with each other and with radiologists. W...
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Helen Clark
Franck Amyot, David B. Arciniegas, Michael P. Brazaitis, Kenneth C. Curley et al.
The incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the United States was 3.5 million cases in 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a contributing factor in 30.5% of injury-related deaths among civilians. Additionally, since 2000, more than 260,000 service members we...
Adnan A. Hyder
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency and nature of childhood injuries and to explore the risk factors for such injuries in low-income countries by using emergency department (ED) surveillance data. METHODS: This pilot study represents the initial phase of a multi-country global childhood unintentio...
Richard C. Franklin, Amy E. Peden, Erin B Hamilton, Catherine Bisignano et al.
BACKGROUND: Drowning is a leading cause of injury-related mortality globally. Unintentional drowning (International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 10 codes W65-74 and ICD9 E910) is one of the 30 mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive causes of injury-related mortality in the Global Burden ...
Mohammad Ashfak Habib, Mas Sahidayana Mohktar, Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman, Kheng Seang Lim et al.
This paper presents a state-of-the-art survey of smartphone (SP)-based solutions for fall detection and prevention. Falls are considered as major health hazards for both the elderly and people with neurodegenerative diseases. To mitigate the adverse consequences of falling, a great deal of research ...
M. Manzurul Hassan, Shafiul Azam Ahmed, Khalilur Rahman, Tarit Kanti Biswas
BACKGROUND: Medical waste is infectious and hazardous. It poses serious threats to environmental health and requires specific treatment and management prior to its final disposal. The problem is growing with an ever-increasing number of hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic laboratories in Dhaka City, ...
Katherine M. Berg, Adam Cheng, Ashish R. Panchal, Alexis Topjian et al.
Survival after cardiac arrest requires an integrated system of people, training, equipment, and organizations working together to achieve a common goal. Part 7 of the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care focuses on systems of ...
Chen Wang, Chengcheng Xu, Yulu Dai
Traditional statistical crash prediction models oftentimes suffer from poor data quality and require large amount of historical data. In this paper, we propose a crash prediction method based on a bivariate extreme value theory (EVT) framework, considering both drivers' perception-reaction failure a...
Francesco Chirico, Gabriella Nucera, Nicola Magnavita
We believe that Bangladesh has lacked coordinated policy decision and enforcement measures to curtail COVID-19 transmission thus far. We urge policy makers to follow WHO guidance and observe other countries' experiences, which point to a strategy of acting decisively, quickly, and early, well before...