Hospital costs much higher for motorcycle crash victims who dont wear helmets
ANN ARBOR, MI Motorcycle riders who crash without a helmet rack up far larger hospital bills...tion unit, the authors report, care for unhelmeted crash victims cost substantially more and kept patients in the hospital longer than care for patients who ...Acute stress disorder is common among children and parents following pediatric traffic injury
... 2000. The children had been injured in a traffic crash in which the child was a passenger, a pedestrian, ...t even children with minor injuries from a traffic crash are at risk for developing PTSD, say Dr. Kassam-Adams and Dr. Winston. For adults, ASD symptoms soo...Sedentary older women who fall at greater risk for motor vehicle crashes
...ble. One in three participants had a motor vehicle crash serious enough to generate a police report during ...ollow-up. The study identified other motor vehicle crash risk factors that can be measured in the clinical setting, such as increased age, increased weekly d...UNC researchers show passengers boost risk of young driver accidents
...assengers, their risk of a fatal or injury-causing crash grows significantly. We found that when a young driver carries one passenger, the risk of such a crash is somewhat higher about 33 percent, said Dr. Robert D. Foss, research scientist at the UNC Highway...Seat belts as effective in children as in adults
...inds a study in this weeks BMJ. Researchers at ten crash investigation centres in Canada identified 470 children aged 4-14 years and 1,301 adults to study the effectiveness of standard seat belts for protecting school age children in road vehicle crashes. Overall, 40% of children were unbelted, and 22% of ...Sleepy drivers are eight times more likely to crash
...d with a substantial increase in the risk of a car crash resulting in serious injury or death, finds a stud... admitted to hospital or died as a result of a car crash in the Auckland region of New Zealand between April 1998 and July 1999. A further 588 people driving...New triage tool helps children in motor vehicle crashes get the right care
... a childs injuries at the scene of a motor vehicle crash potentially reducing death and disability for these children. (Use of Out-of-Hospital Variables to Predict Severity of Injury in Pediatric Patients Involved in Motor Vehicle Crashes) Many EMS systems simply use existing adult triage criteria for chil...Brain center searches for patterns
... obeys physical laws. For example, when you hear a crash behind you, it's not something artificial; it means that a branch is falling, and you need to get out of the way. So, we evolved to look for these patterns, an ability that worked well in a natural environment, where these patterns mean something. "B......bed levels, the chance of being culpable in a road crash would increase from the 53% chance if you had no drugs to 70% if you had the tranquillisers. "The really important thing to emerge from this is that this increase in culpability was not only for having above the prescribed levels of tranquillisers i...Children riding in extended cab pickup trucks are at greater risk of injury
...y five times more likely to suffer injury during a crash compared to children riding in the rear seat of ot...ion with detailed telephone interviews and on-site crash investigations. Since 1997, PCPS has created a database containing information on nearly 150,000 cra...Study on teen licensing: N.C. crashes involving 16-year-olds drop dramatically
...bert D. Foss and colleagues at the center compared crash rates from 1996-97 before 16-year-olds were licensed under the GDL system and crash rates from 1999, when the new system was in place. To control for other factors possibly influencing...Gender differences in general aviation crashes
...) aircraft in the United States are more likely to crash due to inattention or flawed decision-making, while female pilots are more likely to crash from mishandling the aircraft, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University B...Drinking and drugging can be painful
...oisonings," said Miller. "This included falls, car crash injuries, assaults, suicide attempts, near-drownings, suffocations, poisonings that were not substance-abuse related, injury deaths in the hospital, among many others. We excluded medical misadventures that resulted in injury. We also excluded inju...National Alcohol Screening Day (April 6) A national wake-up call
...nistration, Ms. Michelle Perry, a drinking driving crash survivor, and Mr. Jeffrey Levy, the father of a college student who died in an alcohol-related incident. Patrick Kilcarr, Ph.D., Director, Student Health Education, Georgetown University, will moderate the briefing. Georgetown is one of about 400 col......tal of Philadelphia has demonstrated that computer crash simulation software can successfully predict the l... and Adolescent Medicine, used standard, validated crash simulation software, to evaluate the effect of front passenger airbags on child passengers- seated i...... of instructions to allow calculation of impending crash conditions. "One of those will gauge speed," Dr....nt systems -- belts, airbags, head restraints, and crash avoidance features. Consider mass and crashworthiness. "Small cars put you at greater risk," adds ...Cranfield pushes for greater child flight safety
... secured in a seat of their own. In the event of a crash the child on the lap is pushed towards the seat in front and is then crushed by the adult behind. The child is hurled like a missile. As explained by Roger Hardy, "The adult tends to push the lap child's head into the forward seat." In 1994 a US Airw...Technology to prevent rail accidents should be implemented
...in this week's BMJ. Commenting on last week's rail crash in Ladbroke Grove, London, Professor Cocks compares the incident to a similar accident which took place in Gloucestershire in 1928. He notes that the official inquiry called for the "eventual" installation of automatic train control, which could hav......ors thesis research on age differences inemergency crash avoidance to the Hawaii Pacific Gerontological Society.Tomomi Billings, a native of Kobe, Japan, enjoys golf, speaks three languagesand is investigating life span changes in the speed of behavior and movementcontrol for her honors thesis. All three s......n collisions or rolloveraccidents. Using a $30,000 crash test dummy and two seats borrowed from an actual s...rete floor. Theplatform was then dropped, with the crash dummy, borrowed from the university'sApplied Physics Laboratory, seated behind the students' heavily...