title: [Characteristics of traumatic death of people in high mountains].
abstract: Lethal accidents with tourists who died of trauma in high mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria were retrospectively studied for the period from 1978 to 2003. The victims were 163 males and 17 females aged 14-72 years. Among causes of death most prevalent was a step-by-step blunt mechanical trauma as a result of falling from a great height. In such conditions the body obtains great kinetic energy causing a severe, often lethal, craniocerebral injury with destruction of the brain, blunt injury of the chest, thoracic and other organs.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Mechukaev
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Mechukaev
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000401:mortality*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009051:Mountaineering; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012426:Russia; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*