http://www.safetylit.org/Welcome to SafetyLit, the online source for recent research about injury prevention.Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184334_7In general, hanging cases are the result of suicide, and accidental and homicidal hanging cases are rarely seen. This study retrospectively investigated 4571 death examinations and autopsies that were performed at The Konya Branch of the Forensic Medici...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184623_7Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning from coal and gas heaters is a public health concern in Turkey. This study estimated the prevalence, mortality rate and clinical predictors of severity of CO poisoning cases treated at the emergency unit of the Uludağ Univer...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184346_7Hair highlighting procedures are very common throughout the world. While rarely reported, potential adverse events to such procedures include allergic and irritant contact dermatitis, thermal burns, and chemical burns. Herein, we report two cases of female...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184324_7BACKGROUND: Burn is one of the major causes of childhood illnesses in Bangladesh and is the third leading cause of illness of 1- to 4-year-old children. Rural children are more at risk compared to urban-dwelling children. OBJECTIVE: The study was design...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184611_7OBJECTIVE: To review literature regarding the effect of diabetes medications as a contributing risk for falls and fall-related morbidity in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes. DATA SOURCES: Primary literature was identified through PubMed MEDLINE (19...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184454_7BACKGROUND AND AIM: Electrical burns are associated with significant morbidity and mortality, which are usually preventable with simple safety measures. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study of non-lightening electrocution deaths in Tehran, Iran, bet...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184405_7Young children continue to ingest caustic materials while playing in farm work areas. However, recent agricultural safety and health literature scarcely mentions caustic ingestion, and national incidence data specific to childhood caustic ingestion occurri...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184481_7This descriptive study was conducted among 130 families in Milas, Turkey, who have children ages 0 to 14 years. Among the 130 families, a total of 53 children (40.8%) experienced a burn event. Twenty-seven subjects (51%) had treated the burn with inappropr...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184307_7[Abstract unavailable] Language: Eng...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184341_7OBJECTIVE: All-terrain vehicle (ATV)-related morbidity and mortality has increased in the US, and states have attempted to combat this trend with ATV-specific safety legislation. The objective of this study was to examine the short-term changes in ATV-rela...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184393_7INTRODUCTION: This case report describes a patient who had a perforating eyelid injury that extended to the brain stem. CASE PRESENTATION: A 17-year-old Japanese woman complained of decreased vision in her right eye, with severe ocular pain and headaches, ...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184362_7Comment: Research showing that restricting access to barbecue charcoal is helpful in lowering the number of suicides has been welcomed by experts on suicide prevention. Language: Eng...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_183953_7We conducted an exploratory controlled trial to examine the efficacy of restricting access to charcoal in preventing suicides from carbon monoxide poisoning by charcoal burning in Hong Kong. All charcoal packs were removed from the open shelves of major re...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184321_7During a Christmas party, two male guests started fighting. The perpetrator was allegedly pushed onto a glass table by the victim or fell into the table together with that man so that the glass top broke and caused a cut wound on the perpetrator's back....Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_183997_7OBJECTIVE: To explore the risk factors of injuries among school aged children from migrant workers' families, in Hangzhou. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey on 3582 students from eight separate schools in which, four were set for migrant workers' families ...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184400_7This review discusses the limitation of access to suicide methods as a way to prevent suicide, an approach which forms a major component of many national suicide prevention strategies. An important distinction is made between efforts that attempt to limit ...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184402_7BACKGROUND: Tandir is the name given to a special oven used for baking bread in the eastern and southeastern part of Anatolia. Tandir burn is a unique trauma in that it involves primarily women and young children falling into the in-ground ovens and suffer...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184327_7BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: To investigate the month and day of the week of injury in common childhood activities using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System database. METHODS: All emergency department visits 2002-2006 from bicycles/tricycles, scoo...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184491_7Unintentional bupropion pediatric exposures uncommonly report severe clinical effects such as seizures. We sought to determine the clinical effects and case outcomes for unintentional bupropion ingestions in children age ...Home and Consumer Product Safetyhttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_183987_7Meta-analytic procedures were used to test the effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect, physiological arousal, empathy/desensitization, and prosocial behavior. Unique features of this meta-analytic rev...