Complicated Abdominal Seat Belt Injuries in Children

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: The manuscript discusses complicated abdominal seat belt injuries in children based primarily on five cases (including the long-term outcomes) in a single hospital besides information in the literature. Although similar studies already exist in the literature, the topic is one of ongoing interest and this study does offer some additional information. 

 

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the journal Surgical Case Reports.  

 

Several minor changes are required in the text. These are already incorporated in the galley proof; however, the highlighted ones must be checked by the author. The common errors noted are – 

 

·       Omission or overuse of articles in many places. 

·       Omission or overuse of “,” in many places. 

·       Using numbers instead of words for single digit numbers. 

·       “Seat belt” must be written without hyphen and with space in between in all the places. 

·       Ages of the patients must be written as “X-year-old”. 

·       “Meseterial” must be replaced by “mesenterial” or “mesenteric”. 

·       In the 1^st sentence of multiple case reports, “centered” is used to denote the seat position of the car. It must be replaced by “central”. 

·       “Kinematics” does not fit the context in which it is used multiple times to describe the car crash. So, it must be removed.  

o   The other errors are listed below –  

In the Abstract section –  

  Under Objectives – 

·       “of” must be inserted after “investigation”, “from” must be removed and “1998-2013” must be replaced with “1998 and 2013”. 

  Under Methods – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “of children aged” must be inserted after “cases” and “13” must be replaced by “14” as it was not correct with respect to the information provided in the cases (this holds for later instances as well). 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “injuries to” must be inserted after “included” and “aortic injury” must be replaced with “aorta”. Same applies to the last sentence of the Introduction section. 

  Under Results – 

·       The 3^rd sentence must be replaced with “One of them had a diagnosis of aortic injury and the other, bowel obstruction”.

In the Introduction section – 

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “fracture dislocations” must be hyphenated. 

·       In the 5^th sentence, “subanalysis” must be hyphenated and “attributable” must be replaced with “indicative of”. 

·       In the 6^th sentence, “for” must be replaced by “of”. 

·       In the 8^th sentence, “.” Must be inserted after “et al”, “solid organ” must be hyphenated and “requiring” must be replaced with “require”. 

·       In the 13^th sentence, “Garcia-Espana” must be followed be “’s”. 

  In the 2^nd paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “age appropriate” must be hyphenated. 

  In the 3^rd paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “one third” must be hyphenated. 

In the Results section – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “rear seat” must be hyphenated. 

·       In the last sentence, “cars” must be replaced by “car”. 

In the Case Analysis section – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “sing” must be replaced with “sign”. 

Under Case I –  

  In the 3^rd paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “measured” must be replaced with recorded. 

  In the 4^th paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “pelvis” must be replaced by “pelvic”. 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “subcapsular” is misspelled. 

  In the 5^th paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “ilium” must be replaced by “ileum”. 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “illial” must be replaced by “ileal”. 

Under Case II – 

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “been” must be removed. 

·       In the 4^th sentence, “minutes” must be in the singular form and “measured” must be replaced by “recorded”. 

·       The last sentence must be replaced by “Her VAS scale score was 4/5.” 

  In the 2^nd paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “intestine” must be replaced by “intestinal”. 

  In the 3^rd paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “rapture” must be replaced by “rupture”. 

  In the 4^th paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “at” must be replaced by “on”. 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “bowel” is misspelled. 

Under Case III –  

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “to” must be replaced by “at”. 

  In the 2^nd paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “3 restriction” must be hyphenated. 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “face” must be replaced with “facial”, “signs” must be removed, “details” must be replaced by “detail” and “conscious” must be replaced by “consciousness”. 

  In the 6^th paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “scanned” must be replaced by “noted” and “region” must be inserted after “pelvic”. 

  In the 7^th paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “aumntom” must be replaced by “omentum”. 

·       In the last sentence, “well recovering” must be hyphenated. 

Under Case IV – 

  In the 3^rd paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “as per” must be replaced with “because of”. 

  In the 5^th paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “continuing” must be replaced by “continuous”. 

Under Case V –  

  In the last paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “retroperitoneal” is misspelled. 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “compare to” must be replaced with “more than”. 

In the Discussion section – 

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “car crash abdominal injured children” must be replaced with “abdominal car crash injuries in children”. 

  In the 5^th paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “physician” must be in plural form and “might” must be replaced with “must”. 

·       In the last sentence, “to children…injuries” must be replaced with “behind abdomen car crash injuries in children”. 

  In the last paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “.” Must be inserted before “thus” and the words “public health point of view might emphasize the prevention of such injuries” may be replaced as the sense is unclear. 

In the Conclusion section – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “suffers” must be replaced by “suffering”. 

Author Info

Alon Yulevich Gabriela Ciceu Jonathan Singer-Jordan Liat Apel-Sarid Norman Loberant Tatyana Arzumanov Yechiel Sweed Yoav Hoffmann Yuri Grozovsky

Corresponding Author

Yechiel Sweed
Pediatric Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Article Info

Article Type

Case Report

Publication history

Received: Thu 02, Jan 2020
Accepted: Sat 08, Feb 2020
Published: Mon 17, Feb 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Yechiel Sweed. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.02.03