Publications by authors named "Yacob Alemu Bizuneh"
Workplace injuries constitute a serious and growing public health concern worldwide. Despite work-related injuries being highly common, especially among workers in the manufacturing industry, their growing complexities are not adequately addressed in the current literature. Therefore this study aims to investigate the association between sociodemographic, workplace, and behavioral characteristics with work-related injuries among large-scale factory workers in Ethiopia.
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- Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of emergency department deaths in Ethiopia, with mild TBI (mTBI) patients representing half of all TBI cases and showing potential for good recovery.
- A study analyzed mTBI patients who underwent CT scans at a leading teaching hospital in Ethiopia from 2018 to 2021, focusing on their characteristics and outcomes.
- Results indicated that most mTBI patients were young men with stable conditions, primarily injured from traffic accidents or assaults; while many were discharged, a notable percentage required further surgical intervention or admission, with factors like female sex and self-referral providing some protective benefits.
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- - This study investigates the effectiveness of the Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR) and New Orleans Criteria (NOC) for assessing traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a low-resource setting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where CT scans are less accessible.
- - Conducted as a retrospective cohort study, data was collected from 193 patients aged 13 and older who had head injuries; results showed both tools had 100% sensitivity for identifying serious brain injuries needing surgery or abnormal CT findings.
- - While both tools are effective for ruling out significant injuries, the CCHR and NOC had lower specificity (41.5% and 26.5%, respectively), indicating they might identify more false positives, which could impact