Resumen: | Introduction - A crash course on car crash - Vehicles, victims and velocities - How we break and tear the stuff we are made of (i.e. Biomechanics Revisited) - Wherein we define, describe and damage muscles, bones and joints - Crash injuries of the extremities - Crash injuries of the abdomen - Crash injuries of the chest - Crash injuries of the head, its face and the brain within - The spine - Sear belts and other restraints: what they can do; what they cannot do; how they can help and hoy they can hurt - Injury measurement scales - Patterns of injury in frontal, lateral, rear and rollover crashes.
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