Head injuries to motor vehicle occupants aged 0-5 years.

Author(s)
Gotschall, C.S. & Luchter, S.
Year
Abstract

Data from the National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) indicate that while injuries to children younger than 5 years are infrequent, the injury distribution for these children is shifted towards more serious injuries and that head injuries are relatively more common. Among 236 children aged 0-4 years who sustained head injuries with Abbreviated Injury Scale values greater than or equal to 1 identified from the NASS database for the years 1993-1995, infants were at significantly higher risk of skull fracture (OR 3.7, 95% CI: 2,16, 6.4) and intracranial injury (OR 2.6 (95% CI:1,4, 4.8) compared to children aged 1-4 years. Unrestrained children of all ages also experienced a higher risk of intracranial injury than their restrained counterparts. Even after adjusting for restraint use, the odds of skull fracture for infants was approximately 4 times greater than that for children aged 1-4 years. (A)

Request publication

1 + 0 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.

Publication

Library number
C 14575 (In: C 14573) /84 / IRRD E103623
Source

In: Child occupant protection in motor vehicle crashes : to be held at the Melia Gran Sitges Hotel, Port d'Aiguadolc, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain on 22 September 1999, p. 17-27, 12 ref.

Our collection

This publication is one of our other publications, and part of our extensive collection of road safety literature, that also includes the SWOV publications.