Mechanism of respiratory failure in fatal crowd accidents using a thoracoabdominal compression model of traumatic asphyxia.

CONCLUSIONS: In human women, respiratory failure could occur within 1 h due to respiratory muscle fatigue even when the total thoracoabdominal load is only about 60% of the body weight. Vital capacity ≤1.85 L and modified Borg scale score ≥8.3 can be considered as indices for predicting respiratory failure.
PMID: 31434839 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Nippon Medical School - August 19, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Motomura T, Matsumoto H, Yokota H, Suzuki M, Nishimoto T, Ujihashi S Tags: J Nippon Med Sch Source Type: research