Examination of the impact of airbags on renal injury using a national database

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 211, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 355-360

  Smith III, Thomas G ^a   Wessells, Hunter B ^a   MacK, Chris D ^a   Kaufman, Robert ^a   Bulger, Eileen M ^a   Voelzke, Bryan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

v; AAST; Abbreviated Injury Score; AIS; American Association for the Surgery of Trauma; change in velocity; CIREN; Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network; FI; frontal impact; motor vehicle collisions; MVC; PDOF; primary direction of force; SI; side impact

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRBAG; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CONTUSION; CRASH INJURY RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING; DATA BASE; FORCE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; KIDNEY INJURY; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VELOCITY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AIR BAGS; AUTOMOBILES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956188474     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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