The Arrive Alive website regularly receives reports of pedestrians and other road users injured in some sort of “Fall”. This includes incidents where objects fall onto them as well as themselves falling from heights.Falls and the trauma caused by falling are a significant part of paramedic studies. It involves several aspects of EMS like scene safety, mechanism of injury and several other dynamic factors, which are specific to each incident.
Falling can be separated into two categories:
Falling or tripping from a standing position on the ground and falling from a height (like from a ladder or building etc). This is separate from falling objects, which is effectively blunt force trauma to the body. There could also be a combination of the two forces, depending on the incident.
We decided to gain more insights from our EMS services and create awareness on how to respond to these incidents.
What is the nature of injuries usually expected when responding to a fall of...
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