- Title
- Spinal Injuries: causes and prevention
- Creator
- Blitvich, Jennifer
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/160393
- Identifier
- vital:12164
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04253-9_78
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-3-642-04253-9
- Abstract
- Water-related spinal cord injury (SCI) makes a major contribution to the incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury. The most recent Australian figures show that swimming, diving, surfing or falling into water contributed 9 % of all traumatic SCI [1]. The same figures have been published in the USA [2]. Worldwide, diving is considered the contributing mechanism for SCI for between 2.3 % of SCI cases in South Africa and 21 % in Poland [3]. However, these figures underestimate the real incidence. Some deaths attributed to drowning occur as a result of an unidentified SCI. In almost all circumstances, diving SCI results in permanent tetraplegia [4]
- Publisher
- Springer Books
- Relation
- Drowning: Prevention, Rescue, Treatment Chapter 78 p. 509-513
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Drowning; Spinal injury; Spinal cord injury
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