Light truck vehicles (LTV) are becoming more popular on US highways. This creates greater opportunity for collisions with passenger vehicles (PV). The mismatch in weight, stiffness, and height between LTV and PV has been surmised to result in increased fatalities among PV occupants when their vehicles collide with LTV. We reviewed cases of vehicle mismatch collisions in the Seattle Crash Injury...

Introduction: Accurate evaluation of the extent and severity of neurologic injury is a key component in the care of the trauma patient as traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in trauma victims. EMS assessment of the severity of such injury affects such decisions as need for transfer to a trauma center. Currently, the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is th...

In this paper, we capture the moderating effect of aggressive driving behavior while assessing the influence of a comprehensive set of variables on injury severity. In doing so, we are able to account for the indirect effects of variables on injury severity through their influence on aggressive driving behavior, as well as the direct effect of variables on injury severity. The methodology used ...

Ocular chemical Injury comprises about 8-18% of overall ocular trauma. It is caused by various types acids and alkalis.Alkalis penetrate deep cause severe injury. Acid lesser severity burns.It more common in age group 20-40 years.It the true emergency requires immediate intervention. can a greviousvisual impairment younger economically productive group. Hence, it necessary to evaluate damages w...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the severity of sports injuries in relation to the severity of injuries due to other causes and in relation to type of sport, using generally applied measures of injury severity. SUBJECTS A total of 12403 patients, 4-50 years old, who were treated in the trauma department of the Groningen University Hospital for a sports injury, from January 1990 until January 1997. ME...

BACKGROUND Few data exist supporting a survival benefit to prehospital endotracheal intubation (ETI) over bag-valve-mask ventilation (BVM) in trauma patients. METHODS Data were reviewed from all trauma patients transported to our Level I trauma center receiving prehospital ETI or BVM. Mortality was adjusted by age, Revised Trauma Score, Injury Severity Score, and mechanism of injury (penetrat...