The injury pattern in fatal suicidal falls from a height: An examination of 307 cases

Pitfalls Encountered during Documentation of Cases of Fatal Fall from Height Presented to Kafr EL Sheikh-Medico legal Department during the Period from (1999 to 2013)

“…The pattern of injuries encountered in current study was consistence with most of literatures Xia et al (2012), Prathapan and Umadethan (2015) and Rocos et al (2015) described similar injuries. Bruno et al (2014) reported that as strong common denominator for the injury pattern across all the available literature are the high prevalence of thoracic, head and abdominal injuries and the very low prevalence of neck injuries.…”

Types of falls and strategies for maintaining stability on an unstable surface

“…Falls from height or unstable ground represent a specific type of blunt force trauma, which is produced by rapid vertical deceleration and impact forces [2,8,14,15]. Very few studies in the field of the occupational safety and health [2,16] have been described in literature. Davis et al [17] studied how standing at elevated surface heights and the associated changes in the visual field affected human balance control.…”

“…Postural control may be defined as the postural strategies used for maintaining the vertical projection of the center of mass of the body (CoM) within the base of support, that require recovery response strategies when exposed to perturbations in order to prevent falls [1]. Falls have been reported as one of the leading causes of injuries [2] and are defined as uncontrollable body displacements which cannot be adjusted within a specific time. With medical definition, falls are considered to be unintended changes in body position, that consist in losing balance during walking or other activities that lead to the situation where the person lands on the ground or another low-level surface.…”

Strangulated transmesosigmoid hernia as a late complication of a fall from a height: A case report

“…First, abdominal blunt trauma can rupture the sigmoid mesentery, resulting in a transmesosigmoid hernia. Falls from a height induce a specific type of blunt force trauma produced by rapid vertical deceleration and a high impact force [4]. Deceleration forces typically cause stretching and linear shearing at the interfaces between fixed and mobile parts of the gastrointestinal tract, such as at the ligament of Treitz [5].…”