Pediatric occupant car safety: clinical implications based on recent literature.

Abstract

Seat belts and child safety seats can provide effective protection against serious and fatal injuries, but motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) remain a leading cause of death and injury among infants and children. Recent fatalities associated with air bags have intensified awareness of pediatric occupant car safety issues. A review of pediatric literature from 1989 to 1997 summarizes studies on the correct use, incorrect use, and non-use of child safety restraint devices; injuries patterns to children as occupants in MVCs; transporting children with special needs; lethal air bag injuries; and injury prevention educational programs.

• Authors: J M Murphy
• Journal: Pediatric nursing (Pediatr Nurs) 1999 Mar-Apr Vol. 25 Issue 2 Pg. 137-44, 147-8 ISSN: 0097-9805 [Print] United States
• PMID: 10532010 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)

Topics

• Accidents, Traffic (legislation & jurisprudence, mortality, prevention & control, statistics & numerical data)
• Age Factors
• Body Weight
• Cause of Death
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Guidelines as Topic
• Humans
• Infant
• Infant Mortality
• Infant, Newborn
• Information Services
• Pediatric Nursing
• Safety Management (legislation & jurisprudence, methods)
• Seat Belts
• United States (epidemiology)
• Wounds and Injuries (epidemiology, prevention & control)