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Background/Aims:Due to the prioritization of limb and life-saving efforts by medical teams, peripheral nerve injuries (PNIs) resulting from earthquakes are frequently overlooked or receive delayed treatment. Thus, we examined earthquake-related PNIs in terms of their descriptive characteristics and injury patterns Methods: The study was conducted retrospectively in a tertiary hospital after Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes. The study included victims under rubble admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with PNI according to their medical records between 06 February and 28 February 2023. Results: The study included 70 patients and a total of 98 limbs with PNIs, with a mean patient age of 22.31±14.91 years. 77.6% (n=76) of PNIs involved the lower limb (68 peroneal and 8 sciatic nerves) and 22.4% (n=22) of PNIs involved the upper limbs (14 radial nerves, 5 ulnar nerves, 2 median nerves, 1 brachial plexus). It was found that 45.9% of PNIs (n=45) occurred in the right and 54.1% (n=53) in the left extremities. The median time under the rubble of the patients was 15 hours (IQR 8.75 - 32 hours). Fasciotomy was treated in 54.1% (n=43) of the extremities with PNI. Fasciotomies were most commonly performed on the cruris (42.9%), foot (26.5%), and thigh (16.3%). Conclusion: This study found that PNIs occurred most frequently in the lower limbs, compared with the upper limbs, among earthquake victims with CLIs. Lower limb PNIs mainly occurred in the peroneal nerve, while upper limb PNIs mainly occurred in the radial nerve.

Today, the widespread use of information and communication technologies brings with it new and different problems. One of these problems is cyberbullying, which is expressed as insult, humiliation, social exclusion, threat, exposure or disturbing behavior in virtual environments. Cyberbullying behavior is a problem that has significant effects on victims. The purpose of this study is to reveal the prevalence of cyberbullying, the means of cyberbullying, the reactions of victims to cyberbullying, and the effects of cyberbullying on victims. The sample of the study consists of 610 students studying at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of a university. The study is a descriptive research and questionnaire technique was used to collect study data. According to the results obtained, 41.8% of the participants have been exposed to cyberbullying at least once in the six month. In the tools in which cyberbullying is applied, the first three ranks are e-mail, social networking sites and messages, respectively. In addition, when the effects of cyberbullying on victims are examined, it is seen that it causes problems such as anger, anxiety, feeling sad, sleep and concentration problems. These results show that some precautions should be taken to prevent cyberbullying. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]