• In proof-of-concept experiments, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have successfully cultivated human muscle stem cells capable of renewing themselves and repairing muscle tissue damage in mice, potentially advancing efforts to treat muscle injuries and muscle-wasting disorders in people. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • Burn injuries can lead to an increased risk of nervous system disorders, such as peripheral neuropathy , which can forever alter a person's life as they will now find themselves on a routine of taking different medications every day. (bwglaw.com)
  • Head injuries can harm hundreds of genes in the brain in a way that increases people's risk for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders, UCLA life scientists report. (ucla.edu)
  • The researchers identified for the first time master genes that they believe control hundreds of other genes which are linked to Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, stroke, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, depression, schizophrenia and other disorders. (ucla.edu)
  • Nearly two dozen of the altered genes are present in both the hippocampus and the blood, which presents the possibility that scientists could develop a gene-based blood test to determine whether a brain injury has occurred, and that measuring some of those genes could help doctors predict whether a person is likely to develop Alzheimer's or other disorders. (ucla.edu)
  • More than 100 of the genes that changed after the brain injury have counterparts in humans that have been linked to neurological and psychiatric disorders, the researchers report. (ucla.edu)
  • Iron-deficiency anaemia, migraine, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, major depressive disorder, anxiety, and all musculoskeletal disorders apart from gout were the main conditions contributing to higher YLD rates in women. (fry-it.com)
  • Men had higher age-standardised rates of substance use disorders, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and all injuries apart from sexual violence. (fry-it.com)
  • Disorders that cause acute kidney injury in early or late pregnancy generally fall into very different categories, and it must also be remembered that pregnancies in women with underlying chronic kidney disease who require dialysis during pregnancy or who have previously undergone renal transplantation pose unique sets of issues. (medscape.com)
  • Understanding the physiologic changes and disorders that occur in women with renal disease in pregnancy forms the basis of appropriate management of these unusual disorders. (medscape.com)
  • This review examines the evidence linking acute kidney injury (AKI) with the risk of subsequently developing chronic kidney disease (CKD). (karger.com)
  • Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs in up to 20% of patients admitted to hospital and results in significant morbidity and mortality [ 1 ]. (karger.com)
  • Introduction Vancomycin is a recognised cause of drug-induced acute kidney injury (AKI). (bmj.com)
  • I am often asked whether learning and other cognitive activities will help prevent a decrease in neurogenesis or even the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's," she says. (sfn.org)
  • If a gene turns into the wrong form of protein, it could lead to Alzheimer's disease, for example. (ucla.edu)
  • For example, about 130,000 cases of Alzheimer's disease get diagnosed each year. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • Transport injuries mortality in the EMR was estimated using the Global Burden of Disease mortality database, with corrections for ill-defined causes of death, using the cause of death ensemble modeling tool. (springer.com)
  • In addition to their fatality burden, road traffic crashes also increase the burden of nonfatal injuries (Chandran et al. (springer.com)
  • Targeted interventions tailored for this specific group are necessary to reduce the burden of injuries for male adolescents. (bmj.com)
  • Objective Determine the long-term health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL), work limitation, physical activity, health/economic cost and disease burden of traumatic ACL and/or meniscal injury. (bmj.com)
  • Eligibility Studies reporting HRQoL, work limitations, physical activity levels, health/economic costs or disease burden, ≥2 years post-ACL and/or meniscal injury. (bmj.com)
  • The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study used methods to provide highly detailed estimates of global injury burden that meet these criteria. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • METHODS: In this study, we report and discuss the methods used in GBD 2017 for injury morbidity and mortality burden estimation. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • We also identify important avenues for improving injury burden estimation in the future. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. (fry-it.com)
  • BACKGROUND: As mortality rates decline, life expectancy increases, and populations age, non-fatal outcomes of diseases and injuries are becoming a larger component of the global burden of disease. (fry-it.com)
  • The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of prevalence, incidence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 328 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2016. (fry-it.com)
  • In summary, these methods included estimating cause-specific mortality for every cause of injury, and then estimating incidence for every cause of injury. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • GBD 2016 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators None. (fry-it.com)
  • METHODS: We estimated prevalence and incidence for 328 diseases and injuries and 2982 sequelae, their non-fatal consequences. (fry-it.com)
  • See Pediatric Concussion and Other Traumatic Brain Injuries , a Critical Images slideshow, to help identify the signs and symptoms of TBI, determine the type and severity of injury, and initiate appropriate treatment. (medscape.com)
  • Modeling cognitive deficits following neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injuries with deep convolutional neural networks. (bvsalud.org)
  • The accurate diagnosis and assessment of neurodegenerative disease and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) remain open challenges. (bvsalud.org)
  • While most people know the results of a traumatic brain injury - ranging from a simple headache to long-term problems with memory and thinking, depending on the severity - few are aware that such an injury can also increase one's risk later in life for Parkinson's disease, the neurodegenerative disorder that affects roughly 1 percent to 2 percent of the population over the age of 65. (uclahealth.org)
  • While traumatic brain injury was known to be a risk factor for Parkinson's, no one knew why. (uclahealth.org)
  • Nor was it known whether traumatic brain injury acts synergistically with pesticides such as paraquat, one of the most widely used herbicides in the world, which is known to be toxic to human beings and animals and has been linked to the development of Parkinson's. (uclahealth.org)
  • The current study demonstrated that while a traumatic brain injury does not cause Parkinson's, it can make individuals more susceptible to the disorder, Chesselet said. (uclahealth.org)
  • We found that with a moderate traumatic brain injury, the loss of neurons was too small in number to cause Parkinson's disease, but it is enough to increase the risk of PD," she said. (uclahealth.org)
  • These results suggest that greater attention should be given to the long-term risk of Parkinson's after traumatic brain injury, and that the epidemiology of both risk factors, brain injury and exposure to paraquat, should be evaluated in combination," Chesselet said. (uclahealth.org)
  • Aims Parkinson's disease (PD) constitutes a significant risk for falls and subsequent hip fracture, yet the rate of hip fracture in this patient population has not been clearly delineated. (bmj.com)
  • Parkinson's disease is a devastating neurologic condition in which the brain gradually loses control of body and muscle functions. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • The exact causes of Parkinson's disease have always been somewhat of a mystery. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • Recently, however, new scientific evidence has shown that Parkinson's disease can be caused by long-term exposure to certain chemicals such as herbicides, PFAS, and solvents. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurologic condition that occurs when nerve cells in the part of the brain which controls body movement (the substantia nigra ) begin to degenerate. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • Parkinson's disease symptoms typically begin when 80% or more of these dopamine-producing nerve cells are lost. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • Parkinson's disease patients do not have dopamine to fuel their brain functions and the brain gradually loses its ability to move the body. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • There is no known way to slow or reverse the progressive degeneration of the nerve cells that causes Parkinson's disease. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • How Common is Parkinson's Disease? (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • Approximately 60,000 new cases of Parkinson's disease are diagnosed in the U.S. every year and an estimated 1.5 million people are currently living with the disease. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • The majority of Parkinson's disease cases develop later in life. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • However, a certain percentage of "early-onset" Parkinson's disease cases occur in people in their 30s and 40s. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • What Causes Parkinson's Disease? (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • The exact cause of Parkinson's disease is not fully understood. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • However, recent research has found that only around 15% of Parkinson's disease cases can be definitively linked back to genetics. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • The latest scientific research on the causes of Parkinson's disease indicates that long-term environmental exposure to certain chemicals may actually be a primary contributing factor. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • Ongoing research on the link between chemical exposure and Parkinson's disease has begun to definitively identify a handful of specific chemicals that appear to be associated with PD. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • These studies have consistently found that individuals with prolonged TCE exposure displayed significantly higher rates of Parkinson's disease. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • There is even stronger scientific evidence of a causal link between Parkinson's disease and chronic exposure to chemical pesticides and herbicides, specifically Paraquat. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • Amongst the survivors of an episode of AKI, there is an increasing understanding of long-term consequences that may include an increased mortality risk, the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and the progression from CKD to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) [ 2,3 ]. (karger.com)
  • Transport injuries (TI) are a major cause of global mortality and morbidity. (springer.com)
  • RESULTS: GBD 2017 produced morbidity and mortality estimates for 38 causes of injury. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • CONCLUSIONS: GBD 2017 demonstrated a complex and sophisticated series of analytical steps using the largest known database of morbidity and mortality data on injuries. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • As populations are ageing, and the prevalence of disabling disease generally increases steeply with age, health systems will face increasing demand for services that are generally costlier than the interventions that have led to declines in mortality in childhood or for the major causes of mortality in adults. (fry-it.com)
  • Traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as acquired brain injury, head injury, or brain injury, causes substantial disability and mortality. (medscape.com)
  • Treatment with antibiotics is one of the main arma- and population tailors the initial empiric antibiotic ments of modern medicine, with the discovery of management of patients, which significantly affects antibiotics in the 1930s to 1960s drastically reducing patient's outcome, including health-related costs, mor- infectious disease mortality. (who.int)
  • The objective of the current ering new classes of antimicrobials and the increasing study was, therefore, to assess the bacteriologic pro- emergence and reemergence of resistant pathogens, file, resistance pattern, and patient's outcome in Lan- mortality from infectious disease is increasing [1]. (who.int)
  • Our goal is to ensure that health care providers who work in specialty care fields such as spinal cord injury and disease have the most up-to-date information in research and best practices so they can bring that information back to their respective hospitals and immediately put it to use to improve the care of their patients. (prnewswire.com)
  • Multi-center studies should be done to determine the extent of resistant organisms in health facilities throughout the country.epidemiology, and the findings should be factored into clinical decision making and program design for disease prevention, screening, and treatment. (who.int)
  • Here we explore the recent advances in defining the cellular stress responses within neurodegenerative diseases and neuronal injury, and we emphasize axonal injury as a well-characterized model of neuronal insult. (nih.gov)
  • We simulate the effects of neurodegenerative disease and TBI using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as our model of cognition . (bvsalud.org)
  • GBD 2017 results should be used to help inform injury prevention policy making and resource allocation. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • Serum and free T3 concentrations gradually decrease as the severity of liver disease increases, while their concentrations gradually increase as liver function improves following treatment ( 10 ). (spandidos-publications.com)
  • CONCLUSIONS: All the data found that serum upregulated SNHG3 and downregulated miR-139-5p served as biomarkers to diagnose SCI and indicate injury severity. (minervamedica.it)
  • Vibration injuries vary in severity and can cause painful - sometimes even disabling - effects on muscles, nerves and joints across the body. (thompsonstradeunion.law)
  • Morbidity during the acute rehabilitation phase (which follows the initial acute hospitalization) includes pressure injury (pressure ulcer), which occurs in about 25% of patients treated in Model Systems centers in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • An Acquired Brain Injury, often abbreviated as ABI, is any brain injury that occurs after birth and is not considered to be congenital or degenerative. (harcourthealth.com)
  • A lightning injury occurs after brief exposure to the very intense current of the strike. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Electrical Injuries An electrical injury occurs when a current passes through the body, interfering with the function of an internal organ or sometimes burning tissue. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Transport injuries (TI) are ranked as one of the leading causes of death, disability, and property loss worldwide. (springer.com)
  • BACKGROUND: While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disability that can occur in an injury, and must provide estimates with sufficient demographic, geographical and temporal detail to be useful for policy makers. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • Non-fatal disability for each cause is then calculated based on the probabilities of suffering from different types of bodily injury experienced. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • Some injuries result in permanent disability. (msdmanuals.com)
  • It regulates the statutory obligation to report deaths, injuries, diseases and "dangerous occurrences", including near misses, that take place at work or in connection with work. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aim of the study was to analyse the proportion of deaths caused by injuries among Croatian 15-19 years old male adolescents. (bmj.com)
  • Methods We analysed deaths of adolescents aged 15-19 years who died because of injuries from 1995 through 2012. (bmj.com)
  • According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were approximately 2.8 million TBI-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States in 2013. (medscape.com)
  • Lightning is the second most frequent cause of storm-related deaths in the United States, resulting in about 30 deaths and several hundred injuries each year. (msdmanuals.com)
  • What are the complications of burn injuries? (bwglaw.com)
  • Some of these include "diabetes, atherosclerotic coronary diseases bought on by high cholesterol, such as angina, strokes, and heart attacks," said Manson. (health.mil)
  • When we think of acute and chronic diseases, we normally imagine conditions such as diabetes, cancer, appendicitis, or ones that can be communicable like the flu or common cold. (bwglaw.com)
  • The present status of adjudication for workers claiming compensation for Dupuytren's disease is inconsistent and, therefore, unfair to both workers and employers. (nih.gov)
  • In jurisdictions that sometimes award compensation, the reasons for acceptance or rejection of a claim vary from case to case and are not necessarily based on our present knowledge of the disease. (nih.gov)
  • Find out how to make a workers' compensation claim for a work-related injury or psychological illness. (comcare.gov.au)
  • To provide scheme guidance about the important distinction between the injury (other than a disease) and disease definitions of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (SRC Act). (comcare.gov.au)
  • Identifying whether an employee suffers from an 'injury (other than a disease)' or a 'disease' can have a significant impact on how a claim for compensation is determined under the SRC Act. (comcare.gov.au)
  • An attorney who specializes in acquired brain injuries may be able to help you receive compensation. (harcourthealth.com)
  • Notice given more than 120 days from the date of injury may result in the loss of workers' compensation unless the employer already knew of the injury. (pa.gov)
  • We can help current and retired trade union members claim for vibration injury compensation free of charge. (thompsonstradeunion.law)
  • It is essential to understand these changes to appropriately interpret common laboratory and diagnostic studies when evaluating renal disease in women during pregnancy. (medscape.com)
  • The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013, often known by the acronym RIDDOR, is a 2013 statutory instrument of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Regulations were intended to consolidate a number of earlier regulations on the reporting of accidents and diseases, generally in the workplace and specifically in the railway and offshore industries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Incidents are to be reported to the line manager via the IA system which is the University´s system for digital reporting of incidents and occupational injuries. (lu.se)
  • Employees may help students to report the incident via the IA system which is the University´s system for digital reporting of incidents and occupational injuries. (lu.se)
  • The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of prone position ventilation in infants who develop postoperative acute lung injury after surgery for congenital heart disease. (springer.com)
  • A single-center, randomized controlled trial of pediatric patients with acute lung injury after surgery for congenital heart disease who will receive prone position ventilation or usual care (control group). (springer.com)
  • This study will investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of prone position ventilation techniques in children who develop postoperative acute lung injury after surgery for congenital heart disease. (springer.com)
  • The results may help inform strategies to improve airway management after surgery for congenital heart disease. (springer.com)
  • Pediatric acute lung injury (PALI) is a common complication of congenital heart disease that presents with refractory hypoxemia. (springer.com)
  • After the first year of life injuries are the leading cause of children's death before malignant diseases, congenital malformations and all other causes. (bmj.com)
  • For an injury (other than a disease) to be compensable, it must have arisen out of, or in the course of, the employee's employment 2 . (comcare.gov.au)
  • The employee's injuries shall be reported and investigated by the employer, the head of department, and EHS committee. (lu.se)
  • Employment injury schemes are part of the social security branch in charge of the workers' insurance for occupational accidents and diseases. (itcilo.org)
  • The general objective of the course is to strengthen the capacity of employment injury institutions for the management of the occupational accidents and diseases and the promotion of the prevention approach on occupational safety and health based on ILO standards and best practices. (itcilo.org)
  • Advise in the implementation of policies, strategies and approaches of employment injury schemes addressed to the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases. (itcilo.org)
  • The recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases. (itcilo.org)
  • The list of occupational accidents and diseases. (itcilo.org)
  • The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect and mechanism of triiodothyronine (T3) on alcoholic liver disease (ALD)‑induced injuries in mice. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Alcoholic liver disease (ALD), characterized by liver metabolic disorder, is an acute, chronic liver injury caused by long-term heavy drinking ( 1 ). (spandidos-publications.com)
  • The deficiency of SNHG3 alleviated neuronal injury by restraining inflammatory responses through targeting miR-139-5p. (minervamedica.it)
  • This project focuses on the mechanisms underlying plasma membrane calcium ATPase and collapsing response mediator protein-mediated neuronal degeneration and neuroprotection in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and spinal cord injury. (rutgers.edu)
  • This suggests that in the long term, traumatic brain injury alone is sufficient to induce a progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons. (uclahealth.org)
  • This is especially true for active-duty service members who "must remain resilient in order to 'rebound' when injuries occur," she said. (health.mil)
  • A video is now available online for the Pepper Investigator's Lecture on February 1, 2023, " Gaps and Opportunities in Developing a Chronic Disease Management Model of Traumatic Brain Injury," presented by Monique R. Pappadis, MEd, PhD. Visit the Pepper Investigator's Lecture page to view the video. (utmb.edu)
  • It is used as a broad description of a condition that is compensable under the SRC Act, which includes an injury (other than a disease), a disease, or an aggravation of an injury (other than a disease). (comcare.gov.au)
  • Being diagnosed and getting immediate care is the most important step in mitigating brain injuries. (harcourthealth.com)
  • the 10 others did not receive brain injuries. (ucla.edu)
  • In the rats that had sustained brain injuries, there was a core group of 268 genes in the hippocampus that the researchers found had been altered, and a core group of 1,215 genes in the leukocytes that they found to have been changed. (ucla.edu)
  • Treatment options are basically limited to medications that can help relieve the physical symptoms caused by the disease by stimulating the production of additional dopamine in the brain. (marylandinjurylawyerblog.com)
  • Common symptoms of vibration injury include a tingling sensation, numbness or pain in the fingers, hands and arms, whitening of the fingers and muscle weakness. (thompsonstradeunion.law)
  • Report of occupational injury or disease must be filed in the following cases. (pa.gov)
  • The Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) decides whether an occupational injury has occurred. (lu.se)
  • Two reports, the Claim form and the Occupational injury form, are need to be filled out and signed by both the student and the University. (lu.se)
  • From injury to disease to aging, neurons, like all cells, may face various insults that can impact their function and survival. (nih.gov)
  • In a pre-clinical study, the researchers found that a moderate traumatic brain injury in rats caused a 15 percent loss in the brain cells known as nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons shortly after the trauma, and that this loss continued to progress to a 30 percent loss 26 weeks after the initial injury. (uclahealth.org)
  • Second, Chesselet noted, "shortly after a traumatic brain injury, these neurons are more vulnerable to a second insult. (uclahealth.org)
  • In the acute study, rats receiving moderate traumatic brain injury alone experienced a 15 percent loss of dopaminergic neurons. (uclahealth.org)
  • In the long-term study, which did not include the addition of paraquat, the rat's brains showed a 30 percent loss of dopaminergic neurons 26 weeks after the injury. (uclahealth.org)
  • These are the first data revealing that in a model of experimental traumatic brain injury, not only do nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons degenerate, those that survive become sensitized to paraquat toxicity," said study author David A. Hovda, a professor of neurosurgery and director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center. (uclahealth.org)
  • For drug-induced interstitial lung disease (DIILD) translational imaging biomarkers are needed to improve detection and management of lung injury and drug-toxicity. (lu.se)
  • Ok I would like to have a post with various illnesses, and injuries on video to help others with diagnosing. (backyardchickens.com)
  • Cold Exposure: What Increases Your Risk of Injury? (cigna.com)
  • The research looked at both the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury and the acute, or short-term, effects, combined with an exposure to low doses of paraquat. (uclahealth.org)
  • The Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation (SCIRehab) project , a 5-year project led by the Rocky Mountain Regional Spinal Injury System (RMRSIS) at Craig Hospital, used practice-based evidence (PBE) research to identify the rehabilitation interventions most strongly associated with positive outcomes. (medscape.com)
  • The SCIRehab project included 1376 patients with acute SCIs, with outcome data being abstracted from medical records (clinical outcomes data) at six SCI rehabilitation facilities and obtained from patient interviews at 6 and 12 months after injury. (medscape.com)
  • Successful maternal and fetal outcomes for women with preexisting kidney disease, and those with onset of kidney disease during pregnancy, require a close working relationship among all physicians involved in the care of these patients. (medscape.com)
  • Pressure ulcers also were noted to be the most common morbidity in a study of patients monitored in Model Systems in the United States, occurring in 15% of patients during the first year post injury and increasing in subsequent years. (medscape.com)
  • The annual Summit brings together doctors, nurses, occupational, recreational and physical therapists, social workers, psychologists, pharmacists and researchers to learn about the latest scientific advances, treatments and therapies in spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D), multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). (prnewswire.com)
  • Decision-makers of ministries and institutions in charge of social security and occupational safety and health, Employers' and workers' organizations representatives involved in the governance of the OSH and social security, - Technical staff from employment injury institutions, - Other people from training institutions involved in OSH and social security issues. (itcilo.org)
  • Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is perhaps the most devastating orthopedic injury, and with prolonged survival being the rule, rehabilitation of these injuries has an increasingly important role. (medscape.com)
  • We would not typically categorize injuries sustained from burns as these, but the long-term effects of burns can most certainly be seen as a chronic disease. (bwglaw.com)
  • Once the person is resuscitated, burns and other injuries are treated. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The MMWR Recommendations and Reports issue, 'A Framework for Assessing the Effectiveness of Disease and Injury Prevention' (1), focuses on the challenges of assessment that arise as a consequence of these constraints. (cdc.gov)
  • On the basis of clinical assessment by the treating surgeon and infectious diseases physician, 11 patients were treated for Acinetobacter spp. (cdc.gov)
  • We believe these master genes are responsible for traumatic brain injury adversely triggering changes in many other genes," said Xia Yang, a senior author of the study and a UCLA associate professor of integrative biology and physiology. (ucla.edu)
  • In the supine position, both heart and diaphragm compression may aggravate the collapse of the gravity-dependent area of the lung and worsen hypoxemia and ventilator-related lung injury [ 8 ]. (springer.com)
  • The more severe a burn injury is, the longer that patient will require hospitalization. (bwglaw.com)
  • Eventually, scientists might even be able to learn how to re-modify damaged genes to reduce the risk for diseases, and the finding could help researchers identify chemical compounds and foods that fight disease by repairing those genes. (ucla.edu)
  • Trade union members who work or have worked in construction, engineering, agricultural and mining industries are most at risk of developing a vibration injury. (thompsonstradeunion.law)
  • Ideally, women with kidney disease or systemic diseases that would put them at risk during pregnancy should receive preconception counseling from physicians knowledgeable about the current literature related to pregnancy. (medscape.com)