Injury prevention

Marubayashi, S., Dohi, K., Ochi, K. and Kawasaki, T. (1986). Role of free radicals in ischaemic rat liver cell injury prevention of damagy by a-tocopherol administration. Surgery 99, 184-199. 

Employ during the acute inflammatory phase, 1-5 days after injury. Prevent further injury... 

KY Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, Occupational Injury Prevention Program Manager 25... 

Policy makers, practitioners, and scholars from a variety of disciplines have recently embraced a new approach to risk reduction in health care—a "systems approach"—without proposing any specific reforms of medical liability law. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) placed its imprimatur on this approach in its recent reports (Kohn et al., 2000 IOM, 2001). In its simplest form, a systems approach to risk reduction in health care posits that an injury to a patient is often the manifestation of a latent error in the system of providing care. In other words, a medical mishap is the proverbial "accident waiting to happen" because the injury-preventing tools currently deployed, including medical liability law, are aimed at finding the individuals at fault rather than the systemic causes of error. Coexistence of a systems approach to error reduction and medical liability law as a conceptual framework for policy makers implies that the latter is likely to evolve in an incremental fashion as the former makes more visible different aspects of the medical error problem. 

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. (2003). Ten leading causes of death, United States, 2000. http //webapp.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/broker.exe... 

Vernick, J. S., et al. Unintentional and Undetermined Firearm-Related Deaths A Preventable Death Analysis for Three Safety Devices. Injury Prevention, vol. 9, 2003, pp. 307-11. Concludes that 44 percent of the deaths studied could have been prevented if the gun in question had at least one of the following safety devices personalization, loaded-chamber indicator, or magazine safety. 

National Center for Injury Prevention/ Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... 

URL http //www.cdc.gov/ncipc/ ncipchm.htm Phone (770) 488-1506 Mailstop K65 4770 Buford Highway NE Atlanta, GA 30341-3724 Division of the Centers for Disease Control that deals with injury prevention, including gun-related injuries. This center has undertaken a considerable amount of research that appears in medical literamre. 

Wada, S. et al., Glycosidic flavonoids as rat-liver injury preventing compounds from green tea, Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 64, 2262, 2000. 

Cummings P, Koepsell TD, Moffat JM, Rivara FP. Drowsiness, counter-measures to drowsiness, and the risk of a motor vehicle crash. Injury Prevent 2001 7 194—199. 

Action Assist in establishing surveillance systems to monitor the general population and special high-risk population segments carry out field studies and investigations monitor injury and disease patterns and potential disease outbreaks and provide technical assistance and consultations on disease and injury prevention and precautions. 

Action Assist by providing public health and disease and injury prevention information that can be transmitted to members of the general public who are located in or near areas affected by a major disaster or emergency. 

Deaths and injuries from hurricanes occur because victims fail to evacuate the affected area or take shelter, do not take precautions in securing their property, and do not follow guidelines on food and water safety or injury prevention during recovery (FEMA, 2006Q Nurses need to be familiar with the commonly used definitions for severe weather watches and storm warnings in order to assist with timely evacuation or finding shelter for affected populations (see Table 17.3 and Case Study 17.1). 

Seed pods pitted, discolored, or with water-soaked areas. Cause Cold injury. Prevent damage by protecting plants with row cover when cold nights are expected. 

Haddon WJ (1999) The changing approach to the epidemiology, prevention and amelioration of trauma The transition to approaches etiologically rather than descriptively based. Injury Prevention 5 231-236. Hakkinen PJ (2000) Assessment of physical hazards. In Wexler P, Hakkinen PJ, Kennedy G Jr., and Stoss FW (eds.) Information Resources in Toxicology. San Diego, CA Academic Press. 

National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Implementing a needle stick and sharps injury prevention program in the clinical laboratory A report. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Assessing the effectiveness of disease and injury prevention programs Costs and consequences. MMWR Recomm Rep 1995 44(RR-IO) I 10. (NC)... 

K. Yau and A. Lee, Zero-inflated Poisson regression with random effects to evalnate an occupational injury prevention program. Stat Med 20 2907-2920 (2001). 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) (online). Washington, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention available at www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars accessed on January 13, 2004. 

SAFE - HIT is meant to be extremely productive in terms of size/strength gains AND also has a built-in safety component. One of the fundamental goals of strength training is to act as INJURY PREVENTATIVE... 

Policy Dow s Core Values and EH S policy are included in the report. In the EH S policy Dow states Our goal is to eliminate all injuries, prevent adverse environmental and health impacts, reduce wastes and emissions and promote resource conservation at every stage of the life cycle of our products. We will report our progress and be responsive to the public. ... 

Kromer, L.F. (1987) Nerve growth factor treatment after brain injury prevents neuronal death. Science 235 214-216. 

The results of an effective safety program not only can be measured in injuries prevented and lives saved but also may have a distinct bottom-line impact on the corporation or entity. Companies that do not have effective safety programs often pay the equivalent cost in terms of workers compensation and lost productivity. The inference can be made that a safe workplace is a productive workplace (McElroy 1964). 

Leiter, M. P., Zanaletti, W., Argentero, P. (2009). Occupational risk perceptions, safety training and injury prevention Testing a model in the Italian printing industry. Journal of Occupational... 

Smith, P. M., Mustard, C. A. (2007). How many employees receive safety training during their first year of a new job Injury Prevention, 13, 37-41. 

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