Does vehicle intrusion alone still predict injury: a retrospective analysis of mechanism as trauma activation criteria - Travis HJ, Platt B, Muramoto SG, Smith AA, Hunt JP, Stuke LE, Greiffenstein PP, Schoen JE, Marr AB.

Automobile collisions with driver side intrusion>12  inches or>18 elsewhere meet criteria for trauma activation. However, vehicle safety features have improved since this inception. We hypothesized vehicle intrusion (VI) alone as mechanism-of-injury (MOI...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news