Pregnant woman and road safety: Experimental crash test with post mortem human subject

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 185-189

  Delotte, Jerome ^a,b   Behr, Michel ^a   Thollon, Lionel ^a   Arnoux, Pierre Jean ^a   Baque, Patrick ^a   Bongain, Andre ^b   Brunet, Christian ^a  

^a UMRT24 INRETS University of Mediterranée   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE   (France)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Crash test; Injury mechanisms; Pregnancy; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; KINEMATICS; PHYSICAL MODEL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEATBELT; SENSOR; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BACK; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PELVIS; PREGNANCY; SEAT BELTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42449155850     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-008-0319-4     Document Type: Article

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