Causes of Injury
Injury Causes: Book Excerpts
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Rape trauma syndrome:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Rape isn’t primarily about sex. It’s a violent crime linked to feelings of rage or hatred in the assailant. Some of the cultural, sociological, and psychological factors that contribute to rape are increased exposure to sex, permissiveness, cynicism about relationships, feelings of anger, and powerlessness amid social pressures. Many rapists have feelings of violence or hatred toward women or sexual problems, such as impotence or premature ejaculation. They may feel socially isolated and be unable to form warm, loving relationships. Some rapists may be psychopaths who need violence for physical pleasure, no matter how it affects their victims; others rape to satisfy a need for power. Some were abused as children.
In the United States, a rape is reported every 6 to 7 minutes. The incidence of reported rape is highest in large cities and continues to rise. However, many rapes — possibly even most — are never reported.
Known victims of rape range in age from 2 months to 97 years. The age group most affected is 10- to 19-year-olds; the average victim’s age is 13½". About one in seven reported rapes involves a prepubertal child; most of these cases involve manual, oral, or genital contact with the child’s genitals by a member of the child’s family. More than 50% of rapes occur in the home; about one-third of these involve a male intruder who forces his way into a home. In about half the cases, the victim has some casual acquaintance with the attacker. Most rapists are between ages 25 and 44 and have planned the attack. Alcohol is involved in one-third of cases.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Blunt and penetrating abdominal injuries:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Blunt (nonpenetrating) abdominal injuries usually result from automobile accidents, falls from heights, or sports injuries; penetrating abdominal injuries, from stab and gunshot wounds.
The most commonly injured organs associated with penetrating abdominal trauma are the small intestine (29%), liver (28%), and colon (23%). Penetrating abdominal trauma affects 35% of those admitted to urban trauma centers and 1% to 12% of those admitted to suburban and rural centers.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Blunt chest injuries:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Motor vehicle accidents cause two-thirds of major chest injuries in the United States. Other common causes include sports and blast injuries and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. About 50% of these injuries affect the chest wall; 80% of those with significant blunt chest trauma also have extrathoracic injuries.
Chest injuries account for 70% of all trauma-related deaths in the United States.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Spinal injuries:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Most serious spinal injuries result from motor vehicle accidents, falls, dives into shallow water, and gunshot wounds. Less serious injuries result from heavy object lifting and minor falls. Spinal dysfunction may also result from hyperparathyroidism and neoplastic lesions.
Spinal cord injuries occur in 12,000 to 15,000 people per year in the United States. About 10,000 of these injuries cause permanent paralysis; many other patients die as a result of these injuries. Most spinal cord injuries occur in males between the ages of 15 to 35 years; about 5% occur in children. Mortality is higher in pediatric spinal cord injuries.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Acceleration-deceleration cervical injuries:
Causes
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Whiplash commonly results from rear-end automobile accidents. A seat belt keeps a person’s body from being thrown forward, but the head may snap forward, then backward, causing a whiplash injury to the neck. Other causes include roller coasters or other amusement park rides, sports injuries, or punches or shoves.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Cold injuries:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Localized cold injuries occur when ice crystals form in the tissues and expand extracellular spaces. With compression of the tissue cell, the cell membrane ruptures, interrupting enzymatic and metabolic activities. Increased capillary permeability accompanies histamine release, resulting in aggregation of red blood cells and microvascular occlusion. Hypothermia effects chemical changes that slow the functions of most major organ systems, such as decreased renal blood flow and decreased glomerular filtration. Frostbite results from prolonged exposure to dry temperatures far below freezing; hypothermia, from near drowning in cold water and prolonged exposure to cold temperatures.
The risk of serious cold injuries, especially hypothermia, is increased by youth, old age, lack of insulating body fat, wet or inadequate clothing, drug abuse, cardiac disease, smoking, fatigue, hunger and depletion of caloric reserves, and excessive alcohol intake (which draws blood into capillaries and away from body organs).
ELDER TIP The following risk factors put elderly people at increased risk for cold injuries: cardiovascular disease, alcohol abuse, malnutrition, diabetes, skin diseases, scarring from major burns, inadequate fluid intake, working outdoors, wearing inappropriate clothing, and living in poor environmental conditions. The use of anticholinergics, phenothiazines, diuretics, antihistamines, antidepressants, or beta-adrenergic blockers also increases the risk.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Rape trauma syndrome:
Causes
(Handbook of Diseases)
Cultural, sociologic, and psychological factors that contribute to rape include increasing exposure to sex, permissiveness, cynicism about relationships, feelings of anger, and powerlessness amid social pressures.
A rapist usually has feelings of violence or hatred toward women or sexual problems, such as impotence or premature ejaculation. He may feel socially isolated and unable to form warm, loving relationships. Some rapists may be psychopaths who need violence for physical pleasure, no matter how it affects their victims; others rape to satisfy a need for power. Some were abused as children.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Chest injuries, blunt:
Causes
(Handbook of Diseases)
Most blunt chest injuries result from motor vehicle accidents. Other common causes include sports and blast injuries.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Spinal injuries:
Causes
(Handbook of Diseases)
Most serious spinal injuries result from motor vehicle accidents, falls, diving into shallow water, and gunshot and stab wounds; less serious injuries, from lifting heavy objects, contact sports such as football, and minor falls. Spinal dysfunction may also result from hyperparathyroidism and neoplastic lesions.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Abdominal injuries:
Causes
(Handbook of Diseases)
Blunt (nonpenetrating) abdominal injuries usually result from motor vehicle accidents, falls from heights, or athletic injuries; penetrating abdominal injuries, from stab or gunshot wounds.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Cold injuries:
Causes
(Handbook of Diseases)
The specific causes of frostbite and hypothermia vary.
Frostbite
Localized cold injuries occur when ice crystals form in the tissues and expand extracellular spaces. With compression of the tissue cell, the cell membrane ruptures, interrupting enzymatic and metabolic activities. Increased capillary permeability accompanies the release of histamine, resulting in aggregation of red blood cells and microvascular occlusion. Frostbite results from prolonged exposure to dry temperatures far below freezing.
Hypothermia
Chemical changes result from hypothermia that slow the functions of most major organ systems, such as decreased renal blood flow and decreased glomerular filtration. Hypothermia results from cold-water near-drowning and prolonged exposure to cold temperatures.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
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