Suspension Airbags: A Potential Danger

This brief letter alerts readers to the potentially dangerous situation that can occur with suspension airbags. Suspension airbags are high-pressure devices that reside beneath vehicles and provide shock absorption. The author report a case of a spontaneously-rupturing suspension airbag that resulted in serious facial trauma. The 53-year-old man was attempting to repair the suspension airbag of his heavy goods vehicle when the airbag ruptured. The patient sustained major facial lacerations, a fractured mandible, multiple dentoalveolar fractures, and displacement of his partial denture into the nasopharynx.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/14720205
• Authors:
  • Burke, G A
  • Chawla, O
• Publication Date: 2007-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p 144
• Serial:
  • Emergency Medicine Journal
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
  • ISSN: 1472-0205
  • EISSN: 1472-0213
  • Serial URL: http://emj.bmj.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air bags; Case studies; Crash injuries; Heavy duty trucks; Injury severity; Shock absorbers; Suspension systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Facial fractures
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I84: Personal Injuries; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01054287
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 26 2007 9:55AM