Biomechanical impact testing of synthetic versus human cadaveric tibias for predicting injury risk during pedestrian-vehicle collisions - Cameron MW, Schemitsch EH, Zdero R, Quenneville CE.

Objective: The tibia is the most commonly fractured long bone in a pedestrian-vehicle collision. The standard injury assessment tool is the "legform," a device that mimics the human lower limb under impact loads. These devices are designed to identi...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news