Injury Infection and Critical Care

Researchers at University of Florida, Medical Department have published new data on injury infection and critical care

Published in Anti-Infectives Week, August 31st, 2009

"Falls remain a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. To improve effectiveness of our prevention program, we used our electronic injury surveillance database to analyze patient variables and the incidence of fall-related brain injury," scientists in the United States report.

"The database was queried for all injuries treated in the pediatric emergency department for which the word ''fall'' was listed as part of the chief complaint. Age, sex, and mechanism variables were cross tabulated for analysis with traumatic brain injury (TBI) codes. Between June 2005 and June 2008, the electronic surveillance system reported 39,718 injury-related visits to the...

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Source: Anti-Infectives Week (2009-08-31)

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