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Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine, 2013
Falls are common cause of injuries among elderly people, and fractures are the most serious consequence of falls. For seniors, hip fractures are the second major cause of bedridden. The feature and acute care of head injury, spinal cord injury, vertebrae fracture, and hip fracture are described.
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Falls are common cause of injuries among elderly people, and fractures are the most serious consequence of falls. For seniors, hip fractures are the second major cause of bedridden. The feature and acute care of head injury, spinal cord injury, vertebrae fracture, and hip fracture are described.
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[Accidental falls in the elderly].
Praxis, 2014Falls in the elderly are common with consecutive high mortality and morbidity. Recent consecutive data focus on identification and therapy of intrinsic risk factors. Sarcopenia, imbalance and gait disorders represent the major risk factors. Sarcopenia is caused by a disequilibrium of protein synthesis and breakdown, probably in consequence of age ...
Niklas B, Heinimann, Reto W, Kressig
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[Accidental fall-induced craniocerebral injury].
Beitrage zur gerichtlichen Medizin, 1989If the effects of force on the head due to falls are subdivided into three subgroups (forehead, lateral parts of the head and occiput), it is to be observed that occipital traumas take first place in falling on or from stairs (51%) and in falling on the same level (57%).
P M, Hein, E, Schulz
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The role of alcohol in accidental falls.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1983Fifty-three percent of patients injured in accidental falls in the evening in Helsinki and 15% of time-, site- and sex-matched control pedestrians were alcohol-involved. Relative risk of injury, if 1.0 at zero BAC, was 3 at BACS 60-100 mg/100 ml, 10 at 101-150 mg/100 ml and about 60 at BACS above that.
R, Honkanen +5 more
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[Spinal injuries in accidental falls].
Khirurgiia, 1991The case histories of 247 patients with spinal damages caused by a fall from a height are analysed. In 180 (75.3%) patients the damage to the spine was combined with traumas of other localization. The author emphasizes the specific features of the diagnosis and the tactics of management of patients with trauma attended by multiple and concurrent ...
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[In-hospital accidental falls: a reality].
Revista de enfermeria (Barcelona, Spain), 2001To describe the patients who suffer falls in our center and test the sensibility of risk factors currently defined in order to correctly identify them and apply corrective measures.We studied the falls which occurred between March 1996and May 1998. The authors analyze the circumstances of the fall as well as the characteristics of those patients who ...
M, Calvo Mesa +2 more
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Wiley's Death Caused By An Accidental Fall
Chemical & Engineering News Archive, 2002Several disparate factors likely contributed to the mysterious and tragic death in Memphis two months ago of Harvard structural biologist Don C. Wiley. Wiley's car was found abandoned with the keys in the ignition on a bridge over the Mississippi River early on the morning of Nov.
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