Survival following a vertical free fall from 300 feet: The crucial role of body position to impact surface

We report the case of a 28-year old rock climber who survived an "unsurvivable" injury consisting of a vertical free fall from 300 feet onto a solid rock surface. The trauma mechanism and injury kinetics are analyzed, with a particular focus on the relevance of body positioning to ground s...

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Autores principales: Weckbach, Sebastian, Flierl, Michael A, Blei, Michael, Burlew, Clay Cothren, Moore, Ernest E, Stahel, Philip F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3212924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22027092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-19-63
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author Weckbach, Sebastian
Flierl, Michael A
Blei, Michael
Burlew, Clay Cothren
Moore, Ernest E
Stahel, Philip F
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description We report the case of a 28-year old rock climber who survived an "unsurvivable" injury consisting of a vertical free fall from 300 feet onto a solid rock surface. The trauma mechanism and injury kinetics are analyzed, with a particular focus on the relevance of body positioning to ground surface at the time of impact. The role of early patient transfer to a level 1 trauma center, and "damage control" management protocols for avoiding delayed morbidity and mortality in this critically injured patient are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-32129242011-11-11 Survival following a vertical free fall from 300 feet: The crucial role of body position to impact surface Weckbach, Sebastian Flierl, Michael A Blei, Michael Burlew, Clay Cothren Moore, Ernest E Stahel, Philip F Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med Case Report We report the case of a 28-year old rock climber who survived an "unsurvivable" injury consisting of a vertical free fall from 300 feet onto a solid rock surface. The trauma mechanism and injury kinetics are analyzed, with a particular focus on the relevance of body positioning to ground surface at the time of impact. The role of early patient transfer to a level 1 trauma center, and "damage control" management protocols for avoiding delayed morbidity and mortality in this critically injured patient are discussed. BioMed Central 2011-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3212924/ /pubmed/22027092 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-19-63 Text en Copyright ©2011 Weckbach et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Survival following a vertical free fall from 300 feet: The crucial role of body position to impact surface
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title_short Survival following a vertical free fall from 300 feet: The crucial role of body position to impact surface
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3212924/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-19-63
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