Research Question/Objective: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is actively studying the implementation of Advanced Automatic Collision Notification (AACN) systems in motor vehicles. This technology allows motor vehicles to notify a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), such as a 911 call center, in the event of a severe crash. The system provides crash location, vehicle...

During the era before seatbelts and air bags, extensive injury was common after motor vehicle collisions (MVCs). Yet upper extremity peripheral nerve problems, other than the brachial plexus injury, have not been ascribed previously to MVCs. Seven hundred twenty-five patients with the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), cubital tunnel syndrome (CT), and radial sensory nerve (RSN) entrapm...

BACKGROUND Our American College of Surgeons Level 1 Trauma Center serves a rural population. As a result, there is a unique set of accidents that are not present in an urban environment such as deer related motor vehicle crashes (dMVC). We characterized injury patterns between motorcycle/all-terrain vehicles (MCC) and automobile (MVC) crashes related to dMVC (deer motor vehicle crash) with the ...

OBJECTIVE To study the causes of head injuries among the paediatric population in Singapore, and the association between causes and mortality, as well as the need for airway or neurosurgical intervention. DESIGN This is a prospective observational study utilising data from the trauma surveillance system from January 2011 to March 2015. SETTING Paediatric emergency departments (EDs) of KK Wo...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Although much is known about injury-related deaths from the use of external cause of injury codes (ecodes) on death certificates, the contribution of nonfatal injury is unknown, with most information based on estimates from national surveys. Some states mandate ecoding of charts for hospitalized patients, but few require ecode assignment for emergency department (ED) records. Mi...

Alcohol involvement is a major contributing factor in the occurrence of motor vehicle traffic crashes. According to NHTSA’s preliminary estimate for 2002, alcohol was involved in about 42 percent of all motor vehicle crashes where there was a fatality. The most direct measure of a driver’s or nonoccupant’s alcohol involvement is a BAC test result reported in NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting ...