Bacteremia and Urinary Tract Infection Caused by Chromobacterium violaceum: Case Reports from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal by Narayan Dutt Pant, Subhash Prasad Acharya, Raju Bhandari, Uday Narayan Yadav, Dil Bahadur Saru, Manisha Sharma

“…Here, we reported a case of urinary tract infection caused by Chromobacterium violaceum in a 84-year-old male, who was a kidney patient, and another case of bacteremia caused by the same bacterium in a road traffic accident patient (22-year-old male), both of which were managed with the timely suitable treatment.…”
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Vitreous Humour Extrusion after Suxamethonium Induction of Anaesthesia in a Polytraumatized Patient: A Case Report by Frederick Ebegue Amadasun, Theodore Ojeide Isesele

“…A 34-year old Nigerian male, was involved in a road traffic accident. He presented at the Accident & Emergency Unit of our hospital about 2 hours after the accident. …”
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A Case of Small Bowel Obstruction and Enterocutaneous Fistulation Resulting from a Mesenteric Haematoma following Blunt Abdominal Trauma by Matthew North, Nicholas Aveyard, Oyeniyi Diya, Jeremy Berger, Maitham Al-Whouhayb

“…A 23-year-old male with a history of previous abdominal surgery was involved in a road traffic accident. He was discharged after initial assessment but represented several days with small bowel obstruction secondary to a mesenteric haematoma. …”
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Sword-Like Trauma to the Shoulder with Open Head-Splitting Fracture of the Head by Andreas Panagopoulos, Konstantinos Pantazis, Ilias Iliopoulos, Ioannis Seferlis, Zinon Kokkalis

“…We present a case of a 67-year-old man who sustained a severe, sword-like trauma to his left shoulder after a road traffic accident with associated isolated open Gustilo-Anderson IIIA humeral head-splitting fracture. …”
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Development and Testing of Road Signs Alert System Using a Smart Mobile Phone by Eric M. Masatu, Ramadhani Sinde, Anael Sam

“…Road traffic accident is a major problem worldwide resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. …”
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Prospective Evaluation of 24 h/2 Days’ Monitoring of Systemic Blood Pressure in Patients with Traumatic Paraplegia – A Single-center Study by Vandana Chaudhary, N S Verma, Bhupendra Kumar, Kumar Rahul, Satish Kumar

“…Materials and Methods: We enrolled 36 patients of traumatic paraplegia patients, paralyzed by Road traffic accident or fall from height within 7 days of trauma. …”
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Role of Joshi's External Stabilization System Fixator in Proximal Humerus Fractures by Baskar Chockalingam

“…The most common etiology includes accidental falls in elderly population and road traffic accident (RTA) in younger population. There is a wide range of treatments starting from conservative to advanced techniques like replacement. …”
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Orthopedic Trauma Epidemiology in Pediatric Patients at a Tertiary Care Trauma Center in North India by Syed Faisal Afaque, Vikas Verma, Farhat Fatima, Ajai Singh

“…Fall injuries were the most common mode of trauma (49.9%, n = 239) followed by road traffic accident (29.4%, n = 141). Among operated patients, most injuries were closed (47.2%, n = 138) followed by compound injuries (32.2%, n = 94) and crush injuries (20.6%, n = 60). …”
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Functional Outcome of Osteosynthesis with PHILOS in Elderly Patients: Experience at Tertiary Care Centre by Narendra Singh Kushwaha, Sushil Kumar Saini, Ashutosh Verma, Ravindra Mohan, Atul Kumar Saroj, Arpit Singh, M. C. Prajwal

“…Mode of trauma in elderly patients with severe osteoporosis, fractures usually resulted from low velocity indirect trauma while high velocity trauma like road traffic accident was the cause of these fractures in younger age group. …”
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Fatal Renal Failure in a Spinal Cord Injury Patient with Vesicoureteric Reflux Who Underwent Repeated Ureteric Reimplantations Unsuccessfully: Treatment Should Focus on Abolition o... by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul Soni, Kottarathil Abraham Abraham, Peter Hughes, Gurpreet Singh

“…A 29-year-old man developed paraplegia at T-10 level due to road traffic accident in 1972. Both kidneys were normal and showed good function on intravenous urography. …”
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Knowledge and Attitude about Basic Life Support and Emergency Medical Services amongst Healthcare Interns in University Hospitals: A Cross-Sectional Study by Shahabe A. Saquib, Hassan M. Al-Harthi, Anas A. Khoshhal, Adel A. Shaher, Abdulsalam B. Al-Shammari, AbdulAhad Khan, Tahani A. Al-Qahtani, Imran Khalid

“…Background. Road traffic accident and sudden cardiac arrest are one of the most leading causes of death in KSA. …”
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Simultaneous Debridement and Titanium Mesh Reconstruction in Patients with Compound Depressed Skull Fracture: A Retrospective Descriptive Study by Srikant Das, Acharya Suryakant Pattajoshi, Mahesh Kumar Kusta, Dibakar Sarkar

“…The predominant mechanism of injury was Road Traffic Accident (RTA), affecting 59 (60.2%) patients. …”
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Epidemiology of pelvic and acetabular fractures in a tertiary hospital in Singapore by Amritpal Singh, Amaris Shu Min Lim, Bernard Puang Huh Lau, Gavin O’Neill

“…The most common mechanisms of injury were road traffic accidents (53.8%), falls (33.1%) and crush injuries (13.0%). 46.2% sustained acetabular fractures, while 44.4% sustained pelvic fractures. …”
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Effectiveness of the advanced stop line for motorcycles in Bucaramanga validated by means of a logistic regression model by Francisco Javier León, Miguel Pérez-Pulido, Omar Mogollón-Alaguna, Miller Salas-Rondón

“… Road traffic accidents are a significant public health concern worldwide, and it is essential that individual countries adopt distinct safety measures to safeguard vulnerable road users. …”
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European Working Time Directive and doctors’ health: a systematic review of the available epidemiological evidence by Consol Serra, Evangelia Demou, Ewan B Macdonald, Sergio Vargas-Prada, Maria Cruz Rodriguez-Jareño, Kaveh A Sanati, Alenka Škerjanc, Pedro G Reis, Ritva Helimäki-Aro

“…Evidence of an association was found between percutaneous injuries and road traffic accidents with extended long working hours (LWH)/days or very LWH/weeks. …”
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Road traffic trauma and the role of emergency medical services by Jokšić-Zelić Milena, Berčenji Emilija, Šijačić Siniša, Radulović Milovan, Burinović Zdravka

“…Results: During the one year, the EMS of HC Bečej treated 61 patients injured in road traffic accidents. 36 (59.02%) were men and 25 (40.98%) were women. …”
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Atraumatic Anterior Dislocation of the Hip Joint by Tadahiko Ohtsuru, Yasuyuki Morita, Yasuaki Murata, Junya Itou, Yuji Morita, Yutaro Munakata, Yoshiharu Kato

“…Dislocation of the hip joint in adults is usually caused by high-energy trauma such as road traffic accidents or falls from heights. Posterior dislocation is observed in most cases. …”
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Pre-siting of UAV stations for traffic accident assessment considering road dispersion. by Sizhe Wang, Yanying Shang

“…This paper investigates the issue of pre-site selection for drone stations with the aim of enhancing the rapid assessment capability of urban road traffic accidents. Firstly, the influence of traffic accidents on urban traffic is analyzed, and the potential application of drones in rapid response at the accident scene is explored. …”
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Traffic Accident Prediction Based on LSTM-GBRT Model by Zhihao Zhang, Wenzhong Yang, Silamu Wushour

“…Road traffic accidents are a concrete manifestation of road traffic safety levels. …”
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Retrospective analysis of trauma patients transported by dispatch monitored type B ambulances to Dhulikhel Hospital, Kavre, Nepal, 2019–2023 by Maxwell L. Mantych, Shiva Neupane, Machchendra Sapkota, Laura D. Cassidy, Sarah C. Young, Ronald Anguzu, Samjhana Basnet

“…Falls (55%) and road traffic accidents (30%) were the most common injury mechanisms, followed by physical assault (7%). …”
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