TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Characteristics of traumatic death in high mountains
JO  - Sudebno-Meditsinskaia Ekspertiza
SP  - 6
EP  - 9
VL  - 49
IS  - 6
N2  - 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.<p />  <p>Language: ru</p>
LA  - ru
SN  - 0039-4521
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -