A modified crash brace position for aircraft passengers

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 975-978

  Brownson, P ^a   Wallace, W A ^a   Anton, D J ^b  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Roy AF School of Aviation Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; HEAD INJURY; LIMB FRACTURE; LIMB INJURY; PELVIS FRACTURE; SEATBELT;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; BIOMECHANICS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEG INJURIES; MANIKINS; POSTURE; RISK FACTORS; SEAT BELTS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0031670736     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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