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Traveling with children: beyond car seat safety.

OBJECTIVE To spread knowledge and instigate the health professional to give advice on childcare during travels and on child transport safety. SOURCES OF DATA Literature review through the LILACS and MEDLINE(®) databases, using the terms: travel, safety, protective equipment, child, preventive medicine, retrieving articles published in the last 21 years. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS The authors a...

Seat belt injuries.

The drivers and passengers of two cars which collided head-on all wore lap and diagonal seat-belts. Three of the four suffered ruptured viscera and two incurred flexion-compression fractures of the neck.A victim of a traffic accident who was wearing a seat-belt and who has superficial bruising or pain presents a difficult diagnostic problem. Visceral injury should be suspected in such cases.

Misclassification of seat belt use.

Seating position, seat belt wearing, and the consequences in facial fractures in car occupants.

INTRODUCTION Trauma caused by traffic accidents is among the main etiologies involved in the occurrence of facial fractures throughout the world. However, the trauma mechanisms involved are different according to the location where the study was performed, due to different conditions of development, legislation, and culture. A retrospective study was done between February 2001 and July 2006, wi...

Recommendations to reduce injuries to motor vehicle occupants: increasing child safety seat use, increasing safety belt use, and reducing alcohol-impaired driving.

Motor vehicle–related injuries kill more children and young adults than any other single cause in the United States,1,2 and they are the leading cause of death from unintentional injury for persons of all ages.3,4 More than 41,000 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes each year,5 and another 3.5 million people sustain nonfatal injuries.1 Moreover, crash injuries result in abo...