Patterns of injury sustained by car occupants with relation to the direction of impact with motor vehicle trauma — evidence based review

Trauma

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 145-150

  Hazarika, Shariff ^a   Willcox, Nadine ^b   Porter, Keith ^c  

^a Research Fellow   (United Kingdom)

^b West Midlands Deanery ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c South Birmingham Trauma Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adult; direction of impact; far oblique; front; lateral; Motor vehicle collisions (MVCs); near oblique; paediatric; rear; rollover

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANKLE FRACTURE; AORTA INJURY; CAR DRIVER; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CONTUSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; EMERGENCY WARD; FATALITY; FOOT FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LEG INJURY; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; NECK INJURY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; SEATBELT; SKULL FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHIPLASH INJURY;

EID: 39049131713     PISSN: 14604086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1460408607084179     Document Type: Review

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