Citation

Sud. Med. Ekspert. 2006; 49(6): 6-9.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Izdatelstvo Meditsina)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17191717

Abstract

Lethal accidents with tourists who died of trauma in high mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria were retrospectively studied for the period from 1978 to 2003. The victims were 163 males and 17 females aged 14-72 years. Among causes of death most prevalent was a step-by-step blunt mechanical trauma as a result of falling from a great height. In such conditions the body obtains great kinetic energy causing a severe, often lethal, craniocerebral injury with destruction of the brain, blunt injury of the chest, thoracic and other organs.

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