TRAUMA OF CERVICAL VERTEBRAE - COLLISION IMPULSE AND LOCALISATION OF DAMAGE RELATING TO CERTAIN ACCIDENT MECHANISMS

TRAUMA DER HALSWIRBELSAEULE. KOLLISIONSIMPULSE UND LOKALISATION VON SCHAEDEN BEI BESTIMMTEN UNFALLMECHANISMEN.

INJURIES TO THE CERVICAL VERTEBRAE CAUSED BY TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS NOT ONLY HAVE MEDICAL SIGNIFICANCE BUT ALSO SUGGEST TECHNICAL POSSIBILITIES TO INFLUENCE PARTICULAR DAMAGE PATTERNS. THESE ARE ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES. THE DISCUSSION OF PARTICULAR QUESTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LINK BETWEEN COLLISION IMPULSES AND INJURIES TO THE CERVICAL VERTEBRAE MAKES IT CLEAR THAT TO SOLVE THE REMAINING PROBLEMS CALLS FOR GREATER COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE ENGINEERING AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONS. DETAILS OF VEHICLE DAMAGE AFTER ACCIDENTS (CRUMPLED AREA, SEATING DEFORMATION, ANGLE OF IMPACT TO THE CENTRE OF GRAVITY OF THE BODY) ASSIST IN SIMPLIFYING THE CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS, ESPECIALLY OF COMPOUND INJURIES, FROM WHICH A SYNOPSIS OF SYMPTOMS MAY BE PROPOSED.

Language

  • German

Media Info

  • Pagination: 1029-30
  • Serial:
    • Aerztliche Praxis
    • Volume: 27
    • Issue Number: 23
    • Publisher: Werk-Verlag Dr Edmund Banaschewski
    • ISSN: 0001-9534

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01304522
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
  • Files: ITRD
  • Created Date: Nov 21 2010 9:58AM