Seat-belt 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

Delayed Facial Nerve Palsy after Seat Belt Induced Injury.

Blunt trauma causing facial nerve palsy and facial nerve trauma due to seat belt injury is rarely reported. We describe a 63 year old female who was involved in a road traffic accident without any imaging evidence of temporal bone fracture developing left facial nerve palsy on the second day. We discuss the pathophysiology of this condition and the need to be aware of this unusual complication ...

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.

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...