A case of osteomyelitis associated with Edwardsiella tarda is reported. Specimens from a wound exudate of a 58-year-old female with osteomyelitis revealed on a direct gram-stained smear, pleomorphic, gram-negative rods. Growth of the organism on differential media and analysis of its Analytab (API)(*) patterns produced results consistent with E. tarda. ...

This article deals with some of the unique problems encountered when people, injured in road traffic or industrial accidents, are trapped as a result of the accident. Mining accidents are specifically excluded because I have no personal experience of them and also because they occur in circumscribed conditions which the ...

Accident investigators are often confronted with the fact that there are doubts with regard to the person who has piloted a vehicle at the time of the accident. By securing all traces in or on the vehicle and on the clothes of the persons on board it will be possible ...

Heat stroke is a complex clinical picture caused by extreme elevation of body temperature and is especially prevalent in hot climates. The danger of heat stroke has apparently always accompanied unacclimatized man on his way through arid zones, and was often the cause of man's fatal adventures in the desert. ...

The organisation, method of operation and evaluation of decentralised medical accident teams established in Christchurch is described. Results from a pilot study undertaken over two years in one area of Christchurch to assess the need for the establishment of these units are documented. The problems associated with communications, equipment and ...

Babies who are born to young mothers, particularly those in disadvantaged groups, are more likely to have adverse outcomes, including cot death. A novel scheme is attempting to address the problem.