Spinal Injuries: causes and prevention

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: 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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