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Pediatric Falls from Heights

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1991
Injuries resulting from falls from heights still constitute a significant portion of urban trauma. At this pediatric trauma center, 70 children were admitted from 1985 to 1988 after sustaining a fall of 10 feet or greater or at least one story. The mean patient age was 5 years and 68% of the patients were boys.
C A, Musemeche, M, Barthel, C, Cosentino, M, Reynolds   +3 more
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Falls from heights

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians, 1978
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.
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Falls From Height: Injury and Mortality

Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 2012
Objectives To determine how Injury Severity Score (ISS) and mortality relate to height fallen, and to determine other predictors of mortality including intent and body region injured. Methods A pre-hospital retrospective, observational database ...
A, Dickinson, M, Roberts, A, Kumar, A, Weaver, D J, Lockey   +4 more
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Fatal Falls from Height in Taiwan

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2014
AbstractThis study conducts an investigation of fatal falls from height, examines gender differences, and compares our findings with those of Western countries. We review deaths in Taiwan caused by falls from height that underwent forensic autopsy from 1994 to 2010.
Tzu-An, Peng, Chien-Chang, Lee, Jasper Chia-Cheng, Lin, Chia-Tung, Shun, Kai-Ping, Shaw, Te I, Weng   +5 more
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A study of fatal falls from height

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2019
and Objective: Falling from a height is one of the main causes of blunt force trauma. Frequently seen in accidents or for the purpose of suicide, it can result in disability or death. The aim of this study is to investigate the characteristics of fatalities due to falling from a height.This study retrospectively examines 213 cases of fatal falls from a
Abdurrahim, Türkoğlu, Kerem, Sehlikoğlu, Mehmet, Tokdemir   +2 more
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Trip, Slip and Fall: ICD10 and Fall from Height

Medico Legal Update, 2022
Background: ICD 10 has unified the diagnosis, in this study, we have studied fall from height asper ICD 10 classification of cases who reported to emergency department of tertiary care hospitalin Maharashtra. Unintentional fall from height represents a significant cause of injury in urbanpopulations.Results: In this retrospective study, data pertaining
null Ishita Manral, null KV Radhakrishna, null Abhijit Rudra   +2 more
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Characteristics of chest injury in falls from heights

Legal Medicine, 2009
This study included 660 victims injured due to high fall. All cases are with injuries caused by the free-fall model of high fall. The range of the heights was from 0 to 70 m. The sample was divided into three groups of growing height: low falls up to 7 m, high falls from 7 to 30 m, and very high falls above 30 m.
T C, Atanasijevic, V M, Popovic, S D, Nikolic   +2 more
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Injuries Caused by Falls from Heights

Medicine, Science and the Law, 1980
The pattern of injury in deaths from falls from heights is described. The mechanisms of injury are compared with the primary site of impact and the heights from which the victims fell.
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Falls from Height: Spine, Spine, Spine!

Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2006
Falls from a height are a major cause of morbidity and hospital cost. Spinal injury is frequently associated with falls from height, but reliable predictive factors have not been identified. Diagnostic evaluation of the spine is complex and debated. Our objective was to characterize spinal injury after falls from height and identify predictive factors ...
George C, Velmahos, Konstantinos, Spaniolas, Hasan B, Alam, Marc, de Moya, Alice, Gervasini, Laurie, Petrovick, Alasdair K, Conn   +6 more
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Pathologic Features of Fatal Falls From Height

American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology, 2004
Deaths due to falls from height are common in urban settings. At the time the body is found, it is often unclear whether the mode of death is accident, suicide, or homicide. To assess the injury pattern in fatal falls from height with special regard to criteria that might be helpful in discrimination between accident, suicide, and homicide ...
Elisabeth E, Türk, Michael, Tsokos
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