Open AccessInjury mechanisms in extreme violence settings
Author(s) -
Fernando Federico Arcáute-Velázquez,
Luis Manuel García-Núñez,
Héctor Faustino Noyola-Vilallobos,
Fernando Espinoza-Mercado,
Carlos Eynar Rodríguez-Vega
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
cirugía y cirujanos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2444-0507
DOI - 10.1016/j.circen.2016.04.007
Subject(s) - criminology , politics , maxima and minima , psychology , political science , humanities , law , philosophy , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Extreme violence events are consequence of current world-wide economic, political and social conditions. Injury patterns found among victims of extreme violence events are very complex, obeying several high-energy injury mechanisms. In this article, we present the basic concepts of trauma kinematics that regulate the clinical approach to victims of extreme violence events, in the hope that clinicians increase their theoretical armamentarium, and reflecting on obtaining better outcomes