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. 2016 May-Jun;84(3):257-62.
doi: 10.1016/j.circir.2015.12.008. Epub 2016 Mar 29.

[Injury mechanisms in extreme violence settings]

[Article in Spanish]
Fernando Federico Arcaute-Velazquez  1 , Luis Manuel García-Núñez  2 , Héctor Faustino Noyola-Vilallobos  3 , Fernando Espinoza-Mercado  4 , Carlos Eynar Rodríguez-Vega  5
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[Injury mechanisms in extreme violence settings]

[Article in Spanish]
Fernando Federico Arcaute-Velazquez et al. Cir Cir. 2016 May-Jun.
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Abstract

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.

Keywords: Injury mechanism; Mecanismo de lesión; Trauma; Violence; Violencia.

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