TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1978//
TI  - Falls from heights
JO  - Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians
A1  - Greenberg, M. I.
SP  - 300
EP  - 301
VL  - 7
IS  - 8
N2  - 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 primarily 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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0361-1124
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -