The effects of depowered airbags on skin injuries in frontal automobile crashes

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 428-435

  Rath, Amber L ^a,b   Jernigan, M Virginia ^a,b   Stitzel, Joel D ^a,b   Duma, Stefan M ^a,b,c  

^a Virginia Tech Wake Forest ^*

^b Virginia Tech Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACE INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AIR BAGS; ARM; CONTUSIONS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FACIAL INJURIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LACERATIONS; SKIN; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 14044250272     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000149406.66374.36     Document Type: Article

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