Exploring the barriers and facilitators of helmet use among motorcyclists: A qualitative study.

Objective: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) have been identified as a major public health problem worldwide. Motorcyclists are one of the most vulnerable groups in terms of injuries and fatalities in road traffic crashes. Not using a helmet and head and neck injuries are the main causes of death and disability among them.

'Downhill race for a rainbow jersey': the epidemiology of injuries in downhill mountain biking at the 2023 UCI cycling world championships-a prospective cohort study of 230 elite cyclists.

Objectives: This study aims to understand the prevalence, incidence rate, anatomical sites, injury severity and main medical actions carried out during official training and racing by elite downhill mountain biking (DHMTB) riders during the 2023 Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Cycling World Championships.

Methods: The participants of this prospective, observational study were elite male and female cyclists competing at the UCI DHMTB World Championships located in the Nevis range in Fort William, Scotland, in 2023. This study followed the injury reporting guidelines established by the International Olympic Committee, which include the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology-Sports Injury and Illness Surveillance (SIIS) and the cycling-specific extension.

Acute effects of swimming goggle wearing on intraocular pressure, anterior chamber biometrics, and optic nerve head morphology.

Swimming goggles (SG) are widely used in water sports, and this study aimed to evaluate the acute effects of wearing SG on intraocular pressure (IOP), anterior chamber biometrics, axial length (AL), and optic nerve head (ONH) morphology. Twenty-eight healthy young adults participated in this cross-sectional study, with assessed parameters including IOP, central corneal thickness (CCT), anterior chamber depth (ACD), anterior chamber angle (ACA), AL, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging of the ONH, specifically Bruch membrane opening (BMO), Bruch membrane opening-minimum rim width (BMO-MRW), lamina cribrosa depth (LCD), and prelaminar tissue (PLT). Measurements were taken at four time points: before wearing SG, at the 1st and 10th minutes of wearing, and immediately after removal.

On-Field Evaluation of Mouthpiece-and-Helmet-Mounted Sensor Data from Head Kinematics in Football.

Purpose: Wearable sensors are used to measure head impact exposure in sports. The Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) System is a helmet-mounted system that has been commonly utilized to measure head impacts in American football. Advancements in sensor technology have fueled the development of alternative sensor methods such as instrumented mouthguards.

Virtual reality for interventional radiology patients: a preliminary study.

Purpose: The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the tolerance and feasibility of using virtual reality headsets with patients during interventional radiology procedures.

Material And Method: In this single-center prospective study, the use of a virtual reality headset in addition to the usual analgesic and anxiolytic treatment was proposed to all patients presenting in the interventional radiology department from December 2020 to June 2022. Exclusion criteria were as follows: (1) patients with whom it was not possible to communicate (2) epileptic patients, (3) non-verbal patients, and (4) pregnant women.

Fatal injury of a skier during school training - case report.

The authors present the case of a fatal accident of a 16-year-old skier who crashed into a tree during a downhill skiing lesson at school. Although the skier was wearing a protective helmet at the time of the accident and his condition did not appear to be too serious immediately after the accident, he later died in hospital as a result of a craniocerebral injury with cerebral contusion and intracranial haemorrhage. His life could not be saved even by immediate neurosurgery, during which fragments of the broken protective helmet were removed from his cranial cavity.

Head Impact Kinematics and Brain Tissue Strains in High School Lacrosse.

Male lacrosse and female lacrosse have differences in history, rules, and equipment. There is current debate regarding the need for enhanced protective headwear in female lacrosse like that worn by male lacrosse players. To inform this discussion, 17 high school lacrosse players (6 female and 11 male) wore the Stanford Instrumented Mouthguard during 26 competitive games over the 2021 season.

Design of an innovative sanitation system for bike-sharing service.

The concept of a novel sanitization device specifically designed for helmets used in bike share services is presented in this scientific work. The system uses ozone, a powerful oxidizing agent, to completely remove dust and bacteria from the helmet surface. Throughout the development process, special attention has been paid to the dual initial goals of efficacy in removing dirt and batteries, as well as ease of use related to the device's safety.

Spring-Assisted Surgery of Unilambdoid Craniosynostosis.

Craniosynostosis is traditionally treated with extensive cranial vault reconstructions (CVRs). Although less invasive techniques, such as endoscopic strip craniectomy with postoperative helmet therapy, have been successful, they also present difficulties. An alternative method is distraction osteogenesis using either manually controlled devices or specially designed springs.

Capsular pneumatosis: A rare radiographic sign for internal breast implant capsule violation in trauma.

Breast augmentation is considered one of the most commonly performed procedures by aesthetic plastic surgeons, representing 16 % of all global plastic surgery procedures in 2020. Given the fact that thoracic trauma comprises over 20 % of trauma worldwide, it is unsurprising that there is potential for overlap between these two patient populations. Here, we present the case of a 59-year-old patient who had undergone bilateral breast augmentation over 10 years prior to presentation.

Health Promotion Interventions on Helmet Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Pre-Test and Post-Test Studies.

Background: We aimed to review the effectiveness of health promotion interventions in the use of helmet and to identify the types of effective health promotion strategies among the examined studies.

Methods: A systematic search was performed on the PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane, and Embase databases up to 1 Aug 2022 to find the studies evaluated the effectiveness of health promotion interventions for helmet use among target population. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, interventions with pre- post-test design were included.

COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF BACTERIAL PERMEABILITY OF A PERSONAL PROTECTIVE RESPIRATORY EQUIPMENT AT DIFFERENT DURATIONS OF ITS CONTINUOUS OPERATION.

Objective: The aim: To establish the level of antibacterial protection of the studied personal protective respiratory equipment set and its main components and compare antibacterial resistance of the personal protective respiratory equipment set in the presence and absence of filtering components.

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: The proposed methodology for assessing biological protection parameters is based on testing the permeability of personal respiratory protection equipment for bacteria by the method of serial dilutions. Also additional culturing of separate components of the protective set on a separate media is carried out.

Sagittal Synostectomy With Tension Band Sutures for Correction of Sagittal Craniosynostosis.

Background And Objectives: Premature fusion of the sagittal suture is the most common form of craniosynostosis and can be treated using a variety of open or endoscopic approaches. Existing approaches have varying degrees of effectiveness. Open approaches, whether performed early or late, can be associated with significant blood loss and the need for transfusion.

Electric Scooter Injuries in Tampa, Florida, Are Associated With High Rates of Head Injury, Hospital Admission, and Emergency Medical Service Transport and Low Rates of Helmet Use.

Background Standing electric scooters (e-scooters) were introduced in Tampa, Florida, in 2019. We reviewed 292 e-scooter injury cases at the Tampa General Hospital Emergency Department (ED) to determine what insights we could gain. We sought to identify the characteristics of such presentations, including chief complaint (CC), patient age, day of the week, time of day, length of stay, disposition, acuity, and means of arrival to the ED.

Quantifying head impact biomechanical differences between commonly employed cleaning levels: a critical research interpretation consideration.

Introduction: Wearable accelerometry devices quantify on-field frequency and severity of head impacts to further improve sport safety. Commonly employed post-data collection cleaning techniques may affect these outcomes.

Objective: Our purpose was to compare game impact rates and magnitudes between three different cleaning levels (Level-1: impacts recorded within start and end times, Level-2: impacts during pauses/breaks removed, Level-3: video verified) for male youth tackle football.

Use of Preliminary Exposure Reduction Practices or Laundering to Mitigate Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Contamination on Firefighter Personal Protective Equipment Ensembles.

Chronic health risks associated with firefighting continue to be documented and studied, however, the complexity of occupational exposures and the relationship between occupational exposure and contaminated personal protective equipment (PPE) remains unknown. Recent work has revealed that common PPE cleaning practices, which are becoming increasingly more common in the fire service, are not effective in removing certain contaminants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), from PPE. To better understand the relationship between contaminated firefighter PPE and potential exposure to PAHs, and to gain further understanding of the efficacy of cleaning practices, we used a standardized fire exposure simulator that created repeatable conditions and measured PPE surface contamination levels via wipe sampling and filters attached to firefighter gear worn by standing mannequins.

Validation of personal protective equipment ensembles, incorporating powered air-purifying respirators protected from contamination, for the care of patients with high-consequence infectious diseases.

Background: The UK High-Consequence Infectious Diseases (HCID) Network of high-level isolation units provides care for patients with contact- or airborne-transmissible highly infectious and highly dangerous diseases. In most HCID units, the healthcare workers (HCWs) wear personal protective equipment (PPE) ensembles incorporating a powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) for head and respiratory protection. Some PAPRs have components worn outside/over other PPE, necessitating decontamination of re-usable elements.

Use of Micrococcus luteus to assess the quality of protection of respiratory organs using the pneumatic helmet with positive airflow.

Unlabelled: In order to effectively protect from dangerous infectious agents, as well as coronavirus, the scientists of I. Horbachevsky Ternopil national medical university (Ukraine) developed a unique prototype of a mobile respiratory protection system with positive airflow - pneumatic helmet.

Aim: To evaluate the bacterial permeability of the proposed concept model of the pneumohelmet in full and partial configuration.