Journal article
Falls from heights
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians, v 7(8), pp 300-301
Aug 1978
PMID: 45693
Abstract
Falls from heights are most commonly due to accidents in children and suicide, accident, and crime-related incidents in adults. Two types of injury result from falls from heights: injury resulting from direct impact and deceleration-type injury. The injuries resulting from direct impact are mostly fractures. The body position at impact is crucial. The deceleration forces immediately post-impact result primarlly in visceral and internal injury, including cranial injury. There is a lack of correlation between os calcis fractures and vertebral fractures. Spinal cord injury is infrequent. Survival figures are higher than usually assumed.
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- Title
- Falls from heights
- Creators
- Michael I. Greenberg - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians, v 7(8), pp 300-301
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 2
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Emergency Medicine
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1978FL06500003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0018190604
- Other Identifier
- 991021903264704721