This report by NHTSA Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) researchers provides details on many typical lower-extremity injuries occurring in crashes and documents the resulting long-term consequences and costs. With increasing use of safety belts and introduction of air bags within the last ten years, there has been a relative increase in the significance of lower-extremity injuries (LEI) in motor vehicle crashes. More occupants are surviving high-energy crashes due to the lower incidence and severity of head, thoracic, and abdominal injuries. Now many survivors are left with disabling lower-extremity injuries. Thus, lower-extremity injuries now are receiving greater attention. Among patients admitted to trauma centers following motor vehicle crashes, approximately 20 percent of drivers had at least one lower-extremity fracture. Lower-extremity injuries from car crashes often involve articulating weight-bearing joints of the hip, knee, and foot. Fractures that involve weight-bearing surfaces frequently result in prolonged reductions in mobility and long-term impairment and disability. The disabling nature of these injuries currently is not properly reflected in their low scores on the most commonly used injury severity scales based on threat-to-life.
CIREN Report: Consequences and Costs of Lower Extremity Injuries
2005
44 pages
Report
No indication
English
Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Injuries , Motor vehicle accidents , Leg(Anatomy) , Economic analysis , Trauma , Air bags , Seat belts , Patients , Biomechanics , Lower extremities , Front seat occupants , Costs , Surveys , Surgery , Fractures , Risk , Impact , Threats , Traffic safety , Lower extremity injuries(LEI)
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