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Original Source: The Prevalence of Seatbelt Use Among Pediatric Hospital Workers.
Eighteen percent of drivers do not consistently wear their seatbelts when driving. The purpose of this article is to report the problem of noncompliance with seatbelt use among health care workers at a Level I pediatric trauma center in the midwest United States with evidence from a non-experimental, observational study. Results showed that 84% (n = 3,641) of drivers and 73% (n = 113) of passengers wore their seatbelts. A significant correlation was found between driver seatbelt use and passenger seatbelt u...
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Health Tip: Secure Your Child in a Booster Seat
-- A booster seat is used to restrain an older child until he or she is big enough to use a seat belt. The Nemours Foundation offers these booster-seat safety tips: Carefully read the seat's entire i...
Health Tip: Wear Your Seat Belt When Pregnant
-- Some pregnant women wonder if they should wear a seat belt while they're pregnant. Most experts say "yes," that it helps protect the woman and her unborn baby from injury in the event of an acciden...
Seat belt research aims to increase child safety on the road
Vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death and injury among children. Researchers have found the most effective strategy to prevent injury and death among children is to use age- and size-appropri...
More Americans Buckling Up Than Ever Before: Report
THURSDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Seat belt use by American drivers and passengers reached an all-time high of 86 percent in 2012, a new federal government study finds. Seat belt use has steadily...
Columbus, OH - New App Helps in Car Seat Selection
Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, recently introduced a new mobile Web application to assist adults in selecting the right car seat for children and determine when children are ready to us...
Lives Could Be Saved By The Implementation Of Standardized Child Booster Seat Laws
State laws that mandate car booster seat use for children at least until age 8 are associated with fewer motor vehicle-related fatalities and severe injuries, and should be standardized throughout the...
Teen Seat Belt Use Reaches All Time High
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 4, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) today announced that seat belt use for teens jumped over two percent in the past two years, from 94...
Auto accidents often occur on low-speed roads, but a high-speed trip encourages reluctant bucklers
(Virginia Tech) Virginia Tech researchers used naturalistic driving data to study variations in seatbelt use. Consistent belt users made fewer trips per day than occasional and infrequent users. Occas...
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Background: Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death in the United States among persons aged 5--34 years. Seat belts have been shown to be the most effective method for reducing injuries a...
Maxillofacial trauma and seat belt: a 10-year retrospective study.
INTRODUCTION: Brazil is among the countries with the highest prevalence of people injured by traffic accidents, showing that in 2008, levels reached 18.3 victims for 100,000 habitants were victims of...
BACKGROUND: Injury and death from road traffic collisions (RTCs) is a major health problem worldwide. The seat belt is the most important RTC safety innovation to reduce injury s...
Chance fracture missed by convencional CT: Presentation of a clinical curse.
Introduction. Bending-disruption fractures of the vertebral body are called Chance fracture. In some cases these fractures may not be noticeable with a CT scan. Clinical case. A 9 years-old boy suffer...
Massive rectal bleeding distant from a blunt car trauma.
Mesenteric trauma is one of the possible injuries caused by the use of seat belts in case of motor vehicle crash. We report here a rare case of rectal bleeding by rupture of a mesosigmoid haematoma. A...
