Change in velocity and energy dissipation on impact in motor vehicle crashes as a function of the direction of crash: Key factors in the production of thoracic aortic injuries, their pattern of associated injuries and patient survival a Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) study

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 760-778

  Siegel, John H ^a,b,c   Smith, Joyce A ^a   Siddiqi, Shabana Q ^a   Minard, Gayle ^c   Templeton, John M ^c   Healey, Mark A ^c  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b New Jersey CIREN Center   (United States)

^c ADMC 1402 ^*

Author keywords

Aortic disruption; Impact deceleration; Impact energy; Motor vehicle crash; Motor vehicle crash injury patterns; Motor vehicle crash safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEATBELT INJURY; SPLEEN INJURY; SURVIVAL; THORACIC AORTA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BIOMECHANICS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; REGISTRIES; SAFETY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC INJURIES; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 7244248970     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000147502.50248.C4     Document Type: Article

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