Fracture of cervical rib: a novel seat-belt injury.

Fracture of cervical rib: a novel seat-belt injury.

issue requiring urgent redress. We also assume that the current NHS changes would not adversely cloud this issue. The British Geriatrics Society8 suggests that there may be sufficient grounds for pessimism. It appears that, even allowing for memory lapses, frustration and anger in the elderly patients interviewed in this survey, there was a strong cases to implicate insufficient social screenin...

Seat-belt fracture of the tibia.

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Seat belt fractures of the cervical spine.

Three unusual injuries of the cervical spine in wearers of safety belts are reported. In each case, the presence of diagonal bruising and abrasions in the line of the sash strap indicated its involvement in the mechanism of the injury.

Anterior dislocation of the restrained shoulder: a seat-belt injury.

The reduction in morbidity and mortality since the enforcement of seat-belt usage is well documented. Complications from the belt are also reported and the authors present anterior dislocation of the restrained shoulder, an injury not previously described. The mechanism of injury is explained and a change to the present standard of restraints is suggested.

The Seat Belt as a Cause of Injury