Falls from flat-roofed houses: a surgical experience of 1643 patients

Factors Affecting Mortality In Falls From Height

“…In the study by Yagmur et al [13] 67 of 1220 patients died from falls from height, and 29 of these patients were older than 15 years. Goren et al [14] studied 484 postmortem cases, and found that their mean age was 27.05 years (range 4-100 years).…”

“…Yagmur et al [13] reported a mortality rate of 5.80% in 1643 cases that fell off the roof. Goren et al [14] found that the majority of deaths due to falls were due to falls from the roof İçer et al, Factors affecting mortality caused by falls from height (56, 36.7%), balcony (108, 25.1%), and stairs (57, 13.2%).…”

Falls from flat roofed house in and around the city of Rewa, Madhya Pradesh: a study from central India

“…direct impact and deceleration are the two most common type of injury result from such falls. 10,11 Direct impact mostly result in fractures; the deceleration forces immediately after impact result primarily in visceral and internal injuries, including cranial injuries. 12 Multisystem injuries result from physical forces in falls that are different from those seen in horizontal deceleration injuries such as from vehicular trauma.…”

“…15 In our series, 122 (60.3%) of the 202 patients had fallen from flat-roofed houses, the majority (78.7%) of patients were men. 9,11,[16][17][18] The age group most commonly affected and with highest mortality rate with accidental falls were 11-30 years which is most productive population. 16,19,20 In present study majority of cases occurred during summer season between 4:00 pm to midnight because of vacation kite flying which is very common during this season and secondly absence of parapet in house in rural areas leading to increased number of fall cases in children and also adult group, another important factor for injury during kite flying was running for catching the broken or cut kite from one roof to another because houses in present setting were in close proximity to each other without any gap leading to serious injury from fall due loss balance.…”

Pediatric trauma. Epidemiological study among patients admitted to Hospital de Ninos “Ricardo Gutierrez”

“…20 To sum up, the most common injuries were traumatic brain injuries (mostly complicated and/or associated with other anatomic locations) and limb injuries, which is consistent with the literature. 21,22 The most common place of occurrence was at home, and almost half of the houses had, at least, one dangerous component. However, an unsafe heating system was the only outcome measure associated with trauma severity in the adjusted model, while other risk factors showed no significant association.…”