Injuries related to animal sacrifice during the Feast of Sacrifice in Turkey.

Background: The Feast of Sacrifice is a significant annual religious festival in Muslim countries. In these festivals, thousands of animals are usually sacrificed by inexperienced individuals. Thus, many injuries occur during sacrificing of animals.

Evaluation of activated charcoal and lipid emulsion treatment in model of acute rivaroxaban toxicity.

Aim: Reducing or reversing the toxicity effects of new oral anticoagulants is an important question.The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the effect of lipid emulsion (LE) and Activated Charcoal (AC) therapy on the intoxication of rivaroxaban, on mice.

Methods: Adult male Balb/c mice weighing approximately 30g were used in the study.