4099.0 Interesting Topics in Injury Research

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 10:30 AM
Oral
This session of excellent research covers the novel topics of medical/surgical misadventures, vacant properties and urban assault, legislation to restrict intoxicated firearm use, and wheelchair falls among veterans with spinal cord injury.
Session Objectives: 1. Define medical/surgical misadventures and recognize their contribution to injury and death and ways to better address this problem. 2. Identify how urban vacant properties may be a focus for intervention strategies to prevent assaults. 3. Discuss laws across US states restricting the sale, possession, or discharge of a firearm while intoxicated, and implications for gunshot injury prevention. 4. Describe the risk factors for veterans with spinal cord injury to fall from a wheelchair and be injured.
Moderator:
Kimberley Shoaf, DrPH

10:30 AM
Trends in death due to adverse effects of medical and surgical care in the elderly
Joyce C. Pressley, PhD, MPH and Barbara Barlow, MD
  
10:45 AM
Medical Injury Case Finding
Jennifer Taylor, PhD, MPH
  
11:00 AM
A review of legislation restricting firearm use while intoxicated
Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, Gali Porat, BS, MS, Douglas J. Wiebe, PhD and Charles C. Branas, PhD
  
11:15 AM
Vacant properties: A modifiable target of intervention to reduce aggravated assault in urban cities?
J. Nadine Gracia, MD, David M. Rubin, MD, MSCE, Wensheng Guo, PhD and Charles C. Branas, PhD
  
11:30 AM
Injuries from Falls among Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
Thomas J. Songer, PhD, MSc, Shirley G. Fitzgerald, PhD and Audrey Nelson, PhD
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services
Endorsed by: Gerontological Health

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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