Injury Risk Articles & Analysis
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Based on the latest evidence and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Disease, Injury, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), researchers at the Institute for Evaluation (IHME) produced site-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, and estimated the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in 2021, ...
Objective To generate a high-resolution map of periprostatic somatic nerves. Periprostatic nerves are at risk of injury during radical prostatectomy; this study aimed to establish the location of somatic nerves with respect to the prostate and the neurovascular bundle. ...
An injury to your spinal cord changes your life dramatically. Paralysis in both arms and legs forces you to come to terms with your body that no longer functions like it used to. ...
Many people who know about CPR, think of it as “mouth to mouth”. Many of us learned CPR in school, or for a job when we were younger. But did you learn about hands only CPR vs mouth to mouth? For many of us, the rescue breaths seemed like an integral part of reviving someone. However, medical professionals have found that when we look at hands only CPR vs mouth to mouth, the results ...
Telecommuting also allows asymptomatic employees to continue working without putting other workers’ health at risk. Likewise, telecommuting benefits employees who may be at a higher risk of contracting the virus due to underlying health conditions. ...
EBRT typically involves a 2- to 3-week treatment delay to allow for postoperative wound healing, and the treatment regimen is time and resource intensive (typically requiring daily visits from Monday through Friday for 4 to 6 weeks).3 RECURRENT BRAIN TUMORS AND THE UNMET CLINICAL NEED FOR A NEW POSTOPERATIVE ADJUVANT THERAPY When an aggressive tumor returns, resection alone is not usually ...
My best friend was killed in a work-related incident in August of 2008. He was 26 years old. It is both easy and difficult to reflect on that day and the way that my life has been impacted since. Easy, because the memories are so clear and forever printed in my mind, but difficult because the wound on my heart is deep and the healing process is, well, slow. Very slow. Stephen was working as a ...
When applied to aircraft tugs like Lindy’s motorized AircraftCaddys, ergonomic design allows airplane owners and FBO ground crews to move aircraft with minimum physical effort, significantly decreasing the risk of muscle strain and injury. Think about the forces at work when you push and pull an aircraft out of the hangar and onto the runway. ...
This article provides an overview of the ergonomic injuries that have been associated with computer use and then reviews changes in the computing landscape and the work environment that have important ergonomic implications. Based upon this review, it calls for increased organisational commitment to ergonomic policy and concludes with some suggested available resources.Keywords: ...
Virtually every agency – domestic or foreign – tasked with protecting human health and the environment generates lists of chemicals that are believed, for one reason or another, to pose risk of injury to human health and/or the environment. More often than not, these lists do not contain a threshold above which exposure to the chemical could give rise to the type ...