{"id":8673,"date":"2022-06-13T03:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T03:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/de\/?post_type=product&#038;p=8673"},"modified":"2022-06-13T03:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T03:15:24","slug":"how-to-fall-to-your-death-and-live-to-tell-the-tale","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/de\/how-to-fall-to-your-death-and-live-to-tell-the-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fall to your death and live to tell the tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"standfirst\" class=\"article__standfirst\">Slipping in the shower, tripping down the stairs, taking a tumble in the supermarket \u2013 falls kill over 420,000 people per year and hospitalise millions more. We can\u2019t eliminate all falls, so we must\u00a0to learn to fall better.<\/h4>\n<aside class=\"article__aside\">\n<div class=\"article__aside__section article__share-buttons\" role=\"group\">\n<div class=\"share-buttons\" role=\"group\">\n<p>Alcides Moreno and his brother Edgar were window washers in New York City. The two Ecuadorian immigrants worked for City Wide Window Cleaning, suspended high above the congested streets, dragging wet squeegees across the acres of glass that make up the skyline of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>On 7 December 2007, the brothers took an elevator to the roof of Solow Tower, a 47-storey apartment building on the Upper East Side. They stepped onto the 16-foot-long, three-foot-wide aluminium scaffolding designed to slowly lower them down the black glass of the building.<\/p>\n<p>But the anchors holding the 1,250-pound platform instead gave way, plunging it and them 472 feet to the alley below. The fall lasted six seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Edgar, at 30 the younger brother, tumbled off the scaffolding, hit the top of a wooden fence and was killed instantly. Part of his body was later discovered under the tangle of crushed aluminium in the alley next to the building.<\/p>\n<p>But rescuers found Alcides alive, sitting up amid the wreckage, breathing and conscious when paramedics performed a \u201cscoop and run\u201d \u2013 a tactic used when a hospital is near and injuries so severe that any field treatment isn\u2019t worth the time required to do it. Alcides was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital\/Weill Cornell Medical Center, four blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>Falls are one of life\u2019s great overlooked perils. We fear terror attacks, shark bites, Ebola outbreaks and other minutely remote dangers, yet over 420,000 people die worldwide each year after falling. Falls are the second leading cause of death by injury, after car accidents. In the United States, falls cause 32,000 fatalities a year (more than four times the number caused by drowning or fires combined). Nearly three times as many people die in the US after falling as are murdered by firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Falls are even more significant as a cause of injury. More patients go to emergency rooms in the US after falling than from any other form of mishap, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly triple the number injured by car accidents. The cost is enormous.\u00a0As well as taking up more than a third of ER budgets, fall-related injuries often lead to expensive personal injury claims. In one case in an Irish supermarket, a woman was awarded 1.4 million euros\u00a0compensation when she slipped on grapes inside the store.<\/p>\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The World Heath Organization\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/factsheets\/fs344\/en\/\">fact sheet on falls<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>BBC Magazine:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-39114931\">The window cleaner who fell from a skyscraper and lived<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Journal of the American Medical\u00a0Association<\/em>\u00a0paper:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/1729533\">The course of disability before and after a serious fall injury<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Video of Stephen Robinovitch from Simon Fraser University:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z3e1Xvnj8Wo\">Video analysis reveals how and why the elderly fall<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Video for Laurie Anderson\u2019s song\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rn9YobymWng\"><em>Walking and Falling<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 750px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.visual-paradigm.com\/share\/book\/how-to-fall-to-your-death-and-live-to-tell-the-tale-zi2d9yax?enforceShowPromotionBar=true\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8678,"template":"","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Intuitive online diagram maker - 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