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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"traffic accident victims"”.
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Retrospective analysis of blunt force trauma associated with fatal road traffic accidents in Cape Town (South Africa) over a two-year period
… and mortality rates in the form of road traffic accidents. In South Africa, there is a need to characterize road traffic accidents and the injuries associated with them, to determine the preventative mechanisms required to reduce their morbidity and mortality rates. A brief review of …
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The impact of barbiturate therapy in children with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)
… most were male (67.6%), and most were road traffic accident victims (71.6%). The average time from admission to initiation of thiopentone therapy was 48 hours; the average treatment duration was 4.8 days. On average, patients were extubated 5.3 days after cessation of thiopentone infusion; …
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Attentional biases and PTSD symptomology in victims of sexual assault and motor vehicle accidents
… in the college population, motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) and sexual assaults. The flicker paradigm, used to measure change detection, was utilized to examine hypersensitivity to environments with threatening stimuli in individuals whom experienced either of these traumas. The paradigm …
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Psychische Traumatisierung bei Verkehrsunfallopfern
Jeder Vierte erleidet im Laufe seines Lebens einen Verkehrsunfall. Obwohl psychische Folgen verbreitet und vielfältig sind, bleiben sie oft unbeachtet oder ihnen wird erst Aufmerksamkeit zuteil, wenn wenn das Leiden oder die Beeinträchtigung durch sie zu stark werden oder die Symptomatik sich …
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Transportation trauma and psychological morbidity: Anxiety, depression, PTSD and perceived control in a hospitalized sample.
Transportation-related collisions are ubiquitous and often traumatic. Identifying post-collision psychological distress and the characteristics of the collision survivor that lead to distress are vital to the development of early and appropriate interventions. The goals of this study were: 1) to …