Presumed trauma mechanism resulting from a 300 feet vertical fall in the present case. Landing feet first is the likely root cause for survival in this 28-year old patient who sustained an injury mechanism generally classified as “non-survivable”
Copyright ©2011 Weckbach et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.