> Not exactly Marcello, but the few cervical spine injuries I've seen over the
> last few years have all resulted from similar "trivial" domestic injuries,
> yet all of my high speed RTA victims have had normal cervical spines. That's
> an interesting observation for the prehospital guys, who invariably strap
> down the latter victims but frequently undertreat the former!
I've been struck in the past with the number of serious looking incidents
such as rollovers where there are no serious injuries and then you go to a
'simple' T-bone side impact and you have a fatality.
I think the same kinematics explain this (rollover dissipate the force more
slowly and there is more deformation to absorb the energy).
I'm impressed with some of the formulae being dredged up here (thanks for
correcting the mc2 Giles - I knew velocity was squared but my Higher Physics
is a few years out of date :)
The EMTs are trained to 'read the wreckage' (see PHTLS manual), but as Vic
points out it's quite basic stuff and immediate impressions can be deceptive
(another good argument for extending the UK EMT training!)
Robbie Coull
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