Carpanen, DWebster, CPandelani, Thanyani ANewell, NClasper, JMasouros, S2018-10-262018-10-262018-07Carpanen, D. et al. 2018. Lower extremity flail is implicated in fatal injury due to anti-personnel mines. 8th World Congress of Biomechanics, Dublin, Ireland, 8-12 July 2018http://wcb2018.com/programme/http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10495Presentation delivered during the 8th World Congress of Biomechanics, Dublin, Ireland, 8-12 July 2018The lower extremity is the most common body region injured in modern warfare which is characterised by proliferation of explosive weapons. Personnel on foot (dismounted) attacked by anti-personnel mines sustain predominantly an open pelvic fracture with disruption at the pubic symphysis (PS) and sacroiliac (SI) joint, with a high incidence of traumatic amputation and vascular injury, which sometimes is fatal. The mechanism of this injury is not known. We postulate that the dismounted injury pattern may be due to predominantly axial load through the lower limb or due to lower extremity flail. The aim of this study was to investigate these two injury mechanisms.enAnti-personnel minesPersonnel protective equipmentConference PresentationCarpanen, D., Webster, C., Pandelani, T. A., Newell, N., Clasper, J., & Masouros, S. (2018). Lower extremity flail is implicated in fatal injury due to anti-personnel mines. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10495Carpanen, D, C Webster, Thanyani A Pandelani, N Newell, J Clasper, and S Masouros. "Lower extremity flail is implicated in fatal injury due to anti-personnel mines." (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10495Carpanen D, Webster C, Pandelani TA, Newell N, Clasper J, Masouros S, Lower extremity flail is implicated in fatal injury due to anti-personnel mines; 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10495 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Carpanen, D AU - Webster, C AU - Pandelani, Thanyani A AU - Newell, N AU - Clasper, J AU - Masouros, S AB - The lower extremity is the most common body region injured in modern warfare which is characterised by proliferation of explosive weapons. Personnel on foot (dismounted) attacked by anti-personnel mines sustain predominantly an open pelvic fracture with disruption at the pubic symphysis (PS) and sacroiliac (SI) joint, with a high incidence of traumatic amputation and vascular injury, which sometimes is fatal. The mechanism of this injury is not known. We postulate that the dismounted injury pattern may be due to predominantly axial load through the lower limb or due to lower extremity flail. The aim of this study was to investigate these two injury mechanisms. DA - 2018-07 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Anti-personnel mines KW - Personnel protective equipment LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2018 T1 - Lower extremity flail is implicated in fatal injury due to anti-personnel mines TI - Lower extremity flail is implicated in fatal injury due to anti-personnel mines UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10495 ER -