What is an injury mechanism?
The injury mechanism describes the specific circumstances that caused the injury. Many healthcare workers, including doctors and emergency medical technicians, must be familiar with different injuries. Knowledge of a specific injury mechanism can prepare a doctor for specific challenges that the injured patient can introduce. In the evaluation and description of the circumstances and causes of injuries, emergency doctors often often consider various kinetic and physical details. For example, a car accident injury mechanism will often be described in terms of speed, angle and accident direction.
Injuries mechanisms are generally divided into different categories such as motor vehicle accidents, rapid vertical slowing and penetrating trauma. These categories are further divided into many significantly more specific and useful descriptions of exactly what the kidshot is injured. For example, penetrating trauma can be divided into stab wounds; firearms wounds; and other types of penetrative wounds, for example from falling on a sharp objectThose in the working environment of man. These categories are often divided even further because EMT or other emergency physician is able to respond faster to injuries if it is prepared with a high -precision and specific injury mechanism. The injury mechanism describing the "firefight on the leg with a low caliber" is more useful than the vague description of "penetrating trauma".
car accidents often require special attention if one has to describe the injury mechanism precisely, because most car accidents take place in three phases, each of which can cause injury. In the first phase, the impact of the vehicle, the car collides with another object such as street light or another car. In the second phase, impact on the body, the body of the individual in the automotive impact of the parts of the car such as the windshield or the steering wheel. The impact of organs, the third phase, occurs when the moving organs in the body like MOZek or intestines, knocks with support organs such as a rib cage or skull. Examination of each phase of the accident can provide a great insight into the nature and severity of the injury mechanism.
It is often necessary to explore the whole scene of the injury, not only the injured individual itself to determine the injury mechanism. For example, a cracked windshield may indicate that an individual in a car accident was not properly secured by a safety belt and that he flew from his seat and collided with the front SK. The severe symptoms of trauma may not be visible, but the cracked windshield may indicate the possibility of more serious internal trauma.