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This prospective study examined the physical, psychological, and socioeconomic effects of injuries on children and their immediate families. Ninety-two injured children admitted with minor (ISS less than 16) or major (ISS greater than or equal to 16) injuries were compared with a control group of 59 children admitted during the same period with acute appendicitis. The two populations were similar in mean age, sex ratio, parental age and work status, and number of siblings. The parents of the injured children had a lower level of education than those of the controls. Fifty-four percent of the minor injury patients and 71% of the major injury patients had persistent physical limitations at 12 months in contrast to none of the controls. Thirty-eight percent of minor injury patients had pre-existing behavioral disturbances compared with 14% of major injury patients and 10% of controls. Behavioral disturbances among major trauma patients showed a sharp rise to 41% at 12 months and tended to persist in cases with continuing physical limitations. The major injury patients and those with significant head injuries exhibited a decrease in academic performance; minor injury patients and those without head injury showed no change. Maternal malaise rose sharply to about 40% in both injury groups in contrast to 7% in the controls and was more common in the presence of persistent physical limitations. Only 73% of families in the major injury group had returned to normal family life compared with 87% of the minor injury group and 100% of controls.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:The physical, psychological, and socioeconomic costs of pediatric trauma. 150 90

As human will stay for long duration in isolated sites like ISS there will be a need to perform quick and reliable diagnosis to evaluate the gravity of the pathology in presence of clinical symptoms. Many pathological situations (abnormal heart rate, pericardic collection, mitral prolaps, cholecystis, renal lithiasis, normal and ectopic pregnancies, ovarian cyst, acute appendicitis, phlebitis ... ) may occur even if all the astronauts are absolutely normal and healthy preflight. Ultrasound echography and Doppler are non invasive methods easy to use in space and very well adapted and used in routine for such diagnosis at the hospital. The objective of the present project was to design a method that guarantee a reliable echographic diagnostic in an isolated site (space station or earth site) by a Medical Doctor located at the expert site that should be the Nasa control center for ISS. It is supposed that there is only a non sonographer person in the isolated site and that the transmission system (audio, video, numeric..) is the only link between the 2 sites. Two options are proposed: (a) A 3D realtime acquisition echograph that can record quickly all the echos of a volume containing the organ suspected to have a lesion, all these echo information being sent to the ground and processed by the ground experts, (b) A robotic arm that hangs the echo probe in the isolated site tele-operated (through sattelite network) from the ground by an expert in clinical ultrasound. (As the expert moves the joystick of his ground computer the robotic arm reproduces the same movements on the probe).
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PMID:3D realtime echography and echography assisted by a robotic arm for investigating astronauts in the ISS from the ground. 1265 Feb 6