The End of An Era

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The primary determinant of energy is velocity, but your point is well taken.
 
KE = M/2 x V2
KE- kinetic energy
M-  mass
V2- velocity squared
 
Steve Smith 
 
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From: YoramKl at clalit.org.il
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Sent: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:40:00 +0200
Subject: RE: The End of An Era


I thought that the term High/low velocity is obsolete. Isn't the term high/low 
energy more appropriate for the discussion?
Yoram Klein  
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From: DocRickFry at aol.com [mailto:DocRickFry at aol.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:28 PM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: Re: The End of An Era

In a message dated 8/22/2005 5:10:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
cursic at gmail.com writes:


> Blast injury to bowel adjacent bowel in tangential abdominal wounds
> (with no peritoneal violation) from low velocity civilian missile
> injuries?  Can't say that I've ever seen one, and I've
> evaluated/treated plenty of tangential belly shots.  Then again,
> haven't done the literature search on it either, so what do I know....
> 
> 

Caesar--
"Civilian" does not necessarily mean low velocity in many of our urban areas, 
as Ron said--in fact, this blast effect is probably an indication in itself 
that you are not dealing with the typical low velocity weapon.  We see these 
occasionally as well and we know that a portion of our GSW's are from more 
destructive weapons like hunting rifles, shotguns and AK-47's
ERF

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