Trauma Biomechanics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Introduction

   • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Felix Walz

   Pages 1-6

3. Methods in Trauma-Biomechanics

   • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Felix Walz

   Pages 7-37

4. Head Injuries

   • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Felix Walz

   Pages 39-56

5. Spinal Injuries

   • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Felix Walz

   Pages 57-89

6. Thoracic Injuries

   • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Felix Walz

   Pages 91-112

7. Abdominal Injuries

   • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Felix Walz

   Pages 113-122

8. Injuries of the Pelvis and the Lower Extremities

   • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Felix Walz

   Pages 123-140

9. Injuries of the Upper Extremities

   • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Felix Walz

   Pages 141-149

10. Injury prevention

    • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Felix Walz

    Pages 151-173

The 2004 World Health Day is dedicated to the theme of road safety by the World Health Organization (WHO) due mostly to the enormous socio­ economic costs attributed to trafik accidents. More than 140,000 people are injured, 3,000 killed, and 15,000 disabled for life everyday on the world's roads. The field of trauma biomechanics, or injury biomechanics, uses the principles of mechanics to study the response and tolerance level of biological tissues under extreme loading conditions. Through an understanding of mechanical factors that influence the function and structure of human tissues, countermeasures can be developed to alleviate or even eliminate such injuries. This book, Trauma-Biomechanics, surveys a wide variety of topics in injury biomechanics including anatomy, injury c1assification, injury mechanism, and injury criteria. It is the first collection I am aware of that lists regional injury reference values, or injury criterion, either currently in use or proposed by both U. S. and European communities. Although the book is meant to be an introduction for medical doctors and engineers who are beginners in the field of injury biomechanics, sufficient references are provided for those who wish to conduct further research, and even established researchers will find it useful as a reference for finding the biomechanical background of each proposed injury mechanism and injury criterion.

• Crash Testing
• Spinal Injuries
• Trauma-Biomechanics
• biomechanics
• classification
• mechanics
• stress
• tissue
• trauma

From the reviews:

"The authors of Trauma Biomechanics describe their work as an ‘introduction to accidental injury,’ and it is intended to be an introduction for engineers and doctors approaching the subject as beginners. The book will certainly serve this purpose. For the established researcher, extensive references are assigned … . The work can be warmly recommended for doctors in legal medicine, traumatology, and orthopedics and for engineers dealing with accident analysis." (A. Du Chesne, International Journal of Legal Medicine, Vol. 119 (4), 2005)

• Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  Kai-Uwe Schmitt

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