Air bags alone compared with the combination of mechanical restraints and air bags: Implications for the emergency evaluation of crash victims

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 915-919

  Sutyak, John P ^a,b   Passi, Vikas ^a   Hammond, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b Medical Education Bldg ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SEATBELT; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 0030869718     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199709000-00011     Document Type: Article

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