Original contributionProspective study of the effect of safety belts in motor vehicle crashes
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Relationship Between Restraint System Use and Brachial Plexus Injuries in Motor Vehicle Accidents: A Case–Control Study from the National Trauma Databank
2022, World NeurosurgeryCitation Excerpt :A greater protective effect was demonstrated with combined use of seat belts and airbags. Advances in automobile crashworthiness, such as modern occupant-restraint systems, have led to a significant reduction of mortality and morbidity in automobile accidents.6-8 Compared with unrestrained occupants, seat belts have been shown to confer an 86% reduction in risk of death or serious injury.9
Gastrointestinal Traumatic Injuries: Gastrointestinal Perforation
2018, Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North AmericaCitation Excerpt :Their purpose is to prevent the driver from coming in contact with the steering wheel and front seat occupants from contacting the dashboard and windshield. Seatbelts significantly reduce trauma to the head, face, chest, abdomen, and extremities.3 Although there are benefits to wearing seatbelts, there are potential injuries that can result.4
Redefining the abdominal seatbelt sign: Enhanced CT imaging metrics improve injury prediction
2017, American Journal of SurgeryCitation Excerpt :Although the increased association between the seatbelt sign and underlying abdominal injury has been widely appreciated, a review of the literature shows the presence of abdominal injuries occur in a wide range (3.4–64%) of patients with an abdominal seat belt sign.1,11,12,16,17,19,20,22–25 This widespread frequency may account for the continued discordance in determining if injury patterns and frequency differ in belted versus unbelted passengers.26,27 Another possible reason is the lack of detail in defining the abdominal seatbelt sign across many of these studies.
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Presented at the University Association for Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1988.
This study was supported in part by the Illinois Safety Belt Coalition.