Disease relevance of Accidents, Traffic

• We conclude that drivers with epilepsy or diabetes mellitus have slightly increased risks of traffic accidents as compared with unaffected persons [1].
• We report the case of an 18 year old cyclist who was struck by a car in a minor road traffic accident, suffered minor head injury without loss of consciousness, and died unexpectedly seven weeks later with vomiting and coma [2].
• Controversial reports of sudden onset 'sleep attacks' resulting in road traffic accidents have recently been reported in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) taking the non-ergot dopamine D(2 )/D(3) receptor agonists pramipexole and ropinirole [3].
• OBJECTIVE--To estimate the risks of road traffic accidents over a period of three years in drivers with a history of single seizures or epilepsy, and to compare them with a cohort of drivers followed up by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) [4].
• Risk of traffic accidents in patients with sleep-disordered breathing: reduction with nasal CPAP [5].

Psychiatry related information on Accidents, Traffic

• Compulsory notification appeared to result in the identification of epilepsy as the important medical reason for controlling licenses, but failed to recognise sleep disorders or alcoholism, both more significant causes of traffic accidents [6].

High impact information on Accidents, Traffic

• Additional studies are needed both to elucidate the association between cocaine use and these fatalities and to determine the value of screening persons seriously injured in traffic accidents in areas where such drug use is endemic [7].
• We also describe 5 subjects involved in road traffic accidents in whom MDMA was identified [8].
• METHODS: Thirteen consecutive patients with PAOD were examined (clinical stage according to Fontaine II, three patients; III, three patients, and IV, seven patients) and compared with five age-matched control patients who had been in traffic accidents [9].
• OBJECTIVES: Insulin-treated patients with diabetes are at a higher risk than the general population in causing traffic accidents due to hypoglycaemias [10].
• CONCLUSIONS: Alcohol intake is a major risk factor for severe injuries from highway traffic accidents [11].

Chemical compound and disease context of Accidents, Traffic

• We evaluated severity of head injury by Marshall score [a classification scale of intracranial pathology on head computed axial tomogram (CT)], and blood-alcohol concentration (BAC), while controlling for crash characteristics [traffic accident deformity score (TAD) and belt use] [12].

Biological context of Accidents, Traffic

• The data on RTA, injuries and fatalities was obtained from the Traffic Department of the Ministry of Interior, Supreme Council for Planning and Ministry of Public Health. The major cause of traffic accidents in Qatar was careless driving (71%) [13].

Anatomical context of Accidents, Traffic

• We present an unusual pattern of injury of a pure lateral flexion distraction fracture of the T12 vertebra with no posterior element disruption following a blow to the right torso to a passenger in a road traffic accident [14].

Associations of Accidents, Traffic with chemical compounds

• Risk of traffic accident injury after a prescription for a benzodiazepine [15].
• This paper reports the circumstances, cocaine and benzoylecgonine concentrations in the blood and other toxicological findings for the two major groups of deaths where cocaine was found with an absence of heroin, i.e., possible overdose cases (35 cases) and traffic accidents (23 cases) [16].
• Effects of random breath testing on hospital admissions of traffic-accident casualties in the Hunter Health Region [17].
• Detection and quantification of lorazepam in human hair by GC-MS/NCI in a case of traffic accident [18].
• The cause and manner of death of these seven cases were: 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methamphetamine (MDMA) and 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-ethylamphetamine (MDEA) poisoning (n = 1), drowning in water (n = 4), cranial injuries caused by a traffic accident (n = 1) and heart failure (n = 1) [19].

Gene context of Accidents, Traffic

• Imported strains of MRSA, often introduced following the repatriation of road traffic accident victims, may include strains with epidemic potential and local spread has followed importation in at least two incidents [20].
• Rupture was described in three cases of PRCC (8.3%): it was spontaneous in two cases and resulted from a traffic accident in the third [21].
• Here we report the first assessment of human brain flavin-containing monooxygenase from tissues obtained at autopsy from seven traffic accident victims [22].
• For this purpose we measured AChE activity in CSF in 30 samples from fresh bodies autopsied after traffic accidents and in six after poisoning with organophosphorous insecticides [23].
• CONCLUSION: Drivers with MS were treated more often than healthy controls at a casualty department after having a road traffic accident [24].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Accidents, Traffic

• A 24-year-old woman who had sustained serious injuries in a road traffic accident required renal dialysis daily and was fed intravenously with a solution containing 25% dextrose [25].
• A 40-year-old woman was involved in a traffic accident and was admitted to another hospital with a severe head injury with a Glasgow Coma Scale score 1 of 8 [26].

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