{"id":1100,"date":"2022-02-16T02:46:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2022-08-18T02:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T02:51:18","slug":"what-is-a-significant-mechanism-of-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"What Is A Significant Mechanism of Injury?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A significant mechanism of injury is a force that could result in an injury so severe, the patient could die from it or suffer a debilitating injury for the rest of their life.   What exactly constitutes a significant MOI?   According to the CDC, examples of a significant MOI would include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Falls of greater than 20 feet<\/li><li>Pediatric falls greater than 10 feet or twice their height.<\/li><li>Motor vehicle accidents with significant vehicle damage, rollover, ejection (person thrown from vehicle), person struck by auto, motorcycle accident.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Significant MOI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/28002-rollover-accidents-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1101\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/?attachment_id=1101\" class=\"wp-image-1101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/28002-rollover-accidents-11.jpg 400w, 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from it or suffer a debilitating injury for the rest of their life. What exactly constitutes a significant MOI? According to the CDC, examples of a significant MOI would include: Falls of greater than 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[121,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.georgiaemsacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}