Effects Of 15% Oxygen On Breathing Patterns And Oxygenation In Infants
...with British Airways who report that in 34 million passengers a year they have no reported cases of sudden infant deaths occurring during flight. Assuming that infants account for one in 500 passengers, 750,000 infants have travelled safely over the last ten years, estimates Milner. He concludes by saying tha...Properly securing trunk crucial in ambulance transport
... could reduce the potential of further injuries to passengers by improving standard immobilization procedures used during transport, according to a study in the journal Spine. Properly immobilizing the trunk is just as crucial as securing the head, says Dr. Stephen Perry, a research fellow at Sunnybrook and Wo...Cranfield pushes for greater child flight safety
... are looking at ways to increase flight safety for passengers travelling with small children. They estimate that an average of 5.6 million children under the age of two fly world-wide each year. * Roger Hardy, Director of the Cranfield Impact Centre believes, "It is time to get children off laps. End of story."......ained adult male exposed to an airbag or for child passengers restrained in the rear seat for the crash scenarios simulated. When airbag equipped vehicles first appeared on the market, no recommendations existed regarding the placement of school aged children in these cars. It was not until the first death...Study: passengers with young drivers boost accidents, graduated licensing might cut toll
...uring motor vehicle crashes grows as the number of passengers in the vehicle increases, according to a new study...e risk of death increased for drivers transporting passengers regardless of the time of day or sex of the driver but males were at greater risk, the study showed....Consortium in place to advance coach safety
...efully bring about great advances in the safety of passengers travelling on coaches, city buses and minibuses." ...valuation methods to assess the protection for bus passengers and drivers in the event of frontal and rollover accidents.......lity for both airlines and for medically qualified passengers administering the procedure. "These devices are so simple that even an untrained volunteer could likely operate them successfully," Page said....Study shows alcohol boosts death risk for boat passengers as well as operators
CHAPEL HILL Recreational boat passengers are just as likely as operators to die as a result...d Maryland. One reason the study revealed was that passengers who have been drinking often topple overboard and drown. Researchers at the University of North Car...Children riding in extended cab pickup trucks are at greater risk of injury
...traint manufacturers on how to best restrain child passengers to lower rates of injury and death to children in motor vehicles. PCPS is based at The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. Founded in 1855 as the nations first pediatric hospital, The Childrens Hospital is recognized today as one of the leading treat...Sleepy drivers are eight times more likely to crash
...eks BMJ. Researchers identified 571 car drivers or passengers who were admitted to hospital or died as a result of a car crash in the Auckland region of New Zealand between April 1998 and July 1999. A further 588 people driving on the regions roads during the study period were used as a control group. They foun...UNC researchers show passengers boost risk of young driver accidents
...nter. The real concern is multiple passengers. Two passengers more than double the risk -- a 137 percent jump --...mending the N.C. GDL system to limit the number of passengers riding with young provisional drivers, as several states have done, should reduce crashes further, F...Is there a neurologist on this flight?
... that flies 50 million, or 10 percent, of all U.S. passengers per year. Mayo routinely provides real-time, in-flight consultation to this airline. From 1995 to 2000, there were 2,042 medical incidents, with 312 emergency landings (diversions). Neurological symptoms accounted for the single largest category ...Recirculated airplane cabin air does not cause more colds
...ir colleagues. The study involved more than 1,000 passengers flying between the San Francisco Bay area and Denv...nter and early spring of 1999. About 19 percent of passengers on planes with recirculated cabin air reported colds one week after the flight. In comparison, 21 pe......ases, he says, as it only started checking airline passengers for SARS on 31 March. "Any country where the healthcare infrastructure is not good and there are crowded living environments may be an area where SARS could establish and maintain itself- and that would be a problem for the world." For the virus to s...Alcohol makes auto crash injuries worse for drivers and passengers, study finds
...The difference, which was seen in both drivers and passengers of crashed vehicles, in victims of all kinds of cr...people with alcohol in their systems. "Drivers and passengers who had any level of alcohol in their bodies were, on average, more than one and a half times as lik...Stanford researchers weigh risks vs. benefits of self-referred body scanning
...canning technology could be used to screen airline passengers for security risks. A scan can show increased blood flow in parts of the brain linked to violent behavior, for example, but no one knows why that part of the brain might be more active on any given day. "There's a great risk of misusing the technolog...Mapping the air to safeguard your looks, the environment and planes in flight
...Diverting planes from deadly dust None of the 262 passengers and crew on that British Airways 747 will ever forget that night. Travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Perth in June 1982 the aircraft entered a cloud of volcanic dust from Mount Galunggung on Java, part of the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'. Hot dust entered th...Video game used for study of human navigation
...a virtual town in a taxi. The players searched for passengers who appeared in random locations and delivered them to designated stores. "Our findings provide the first glimpse at the visually based neural code used by humans to form spatial maps of their environment and navigate from location to location," sai...Concern over rise in pedestrian and cyclist injuries
...uthors. Perhaps children's safety improved for car passengers but not for pedestrians or cyclists between 1992 and 1997, they suggest. Injuries to pedestrians and cyclists can be reduced by traffic calming measures, and cycle helmets reduce head injuries. As national initiatives are promoting walking and cyclin...Researchers fly away from gravity on the 35th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign
...le which makes them easier to study." Two unusual passengers on this week's flights are a pair of rats named Ariane and Apollo. However, they will not be aware of their free-fall. A medical team from the University of Bordeaux will perform some simple surgery on the anaesthetised rats. In this way, the team in...