Severe-to-fatal head injuries in motor vehicle impacts

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1370-1378

  Yoganandan, Narayan ^a   Baisden, Jamie L ^a   Maiman, Dennis J ^a   Gennarelli, Thomas A ^a   Guan, Yabo ^a   Pintar, Frank A ^a   Laud, Prakash ^a   Ridella, Stephen A ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular acceleration; Brain injuries; Contact loading; Head trauma; Impact biomechanics

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR ACCELERATION; BIOFIDELITY; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAINSTEM; CENTER OF GRAVITY; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTACT LOADING; CONTACT LOCATION; CRASH INJURY RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING NETWORKS; CURRENT FIELDS; DATA SETS; FIELD EVALUATION; FRONTAL IMPACTS; HEAD INJURIES; HEAD TRAUMA; IMPACT MODE; INJURY ASSESSMENT; INJURY CRITERIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; MEDICAL CASE; MOTOR VEHICLE; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; ROTATIONAL KINEMATICS; SIDE IMPACT; SKULL FRACTURE; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRASHWORTHINESS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KINEMATICS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; RESONANCE;

LOCATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS; BRAIN INJURY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT BEARING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN INJURIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955320404     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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