7 results match your criteria: "University Department of General Internal Medicine[Affiliation]"
Injury severity and mortality of adult zebra crosswalk and non-zebra crosswalk road crossing accidents: a cross-sectional analysis.
PLoS One
November 2014
University Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Principals: Over a million people worldwide die each year from road traffic injuries and more than 10 million sustain permanent disabilities. Many of these victims are pedestrians. The present retrospective study analyzes the severity and mortality of injuries suffered by adult pedestrians, depending on whether they used a zebra crosswalk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultimorbidity in adult asylum seekers: a first overview.
PLoS One
March 2015
University Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Principals: Over the last two decades, the total annual number of applications for asylum in the countries of the European Union has increased from 15,000 to more than 300,000 people. The aim of this study was to give a first overview on multimorbidity of adult asylum seekers.
Methods: Our retrospective Swiss single center data analysis examined multimorbidity of adult asylums seekers admitted to our ED between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2012.
Injuries in agriculture--injury severity and mortality.
Swiss Med Wkly
June 2014
University Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern, SWITZERLAND;
Principals: Accidents in agriculture are a problem of global importance. The hazards of working in agriculture are manifold (machines, animals, heights). We therefore assessed injury severity and mortality from accidents in farming.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmergency department admissions to a prison hospital: a retrospective cohort study from Switzerland.
Swiss Med Wkly
August 2013
University Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.
Introduction: There are more than 10 million prison inmates throughout the world and this number is increasing continuously. Prisoners are a particularly vulnerable minority group that has special healthcare needs and demands on healthcare services and providers. The aim of this study was to give an overview of prisoners' healthcare problems leading to emergency department admission, in order to make recommendations to help to optimise treatment of this target group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSexual activity-related emergency department admissions: eleven years of experience at a Swiss university hospital.
Emerg Med J
October 2013
University Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Principals: Most people enjoy sexual intercourse without complications, but a significant, if small, number need to seek emergency medical help for related health problems. The true incidence of these problems is not known. We therefore assessed all admissions to our emergency department (ED) in direct relation to sexual intercourse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInjuries, sequelae, and treatment of lightning-induced injuries: 10 years of experience at a swiss trauma center.
Emerg Med Int
August 2012
University Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland.
Article Synopsis
- Lightning strikes are rare but can lead to severe injuries, affecting mainly the nervous and cardiovascular systems.
- A study analyzed nine lightning-related injury cases in an emergency department over a decade, revealing that the majority of injuries involved the nervous system.
- The authors suggest creating an international injury register to better understand lightning-related injuries and improve treatment approaches.