CURRENT PROBLEMS IN GAINING ACCESS TO AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT VICTIMS
This paper will assert itself to the modern porblems which are being experienced by Emergency Medical Technicians and rescue personnel who are faced with having to gain immediate access to an automobile accident victim in a vehicle which has become inaccessable through norma channels or routes. The problems of todays modern safety locks and new windshield design and manufacture will be addressed in how they have presented problems to efforts to deliver emergency care and aid at the scene of an automobile accident. /HSRI/
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Corporate Authors:
American Association for Automotive Medicine
801 Green Bay Road
Lake Bluff, IL United States 60044 -
Authors:
- Hatfield, L M
- McSwain Jr, N E
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Conference:
- 20th Annual Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine
- Date: 1976-11-1 to 1976-11-3
- Publication Date: 1976
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 211-220
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Serial:
- Volume: 20
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automobiles; Disasters and emergency operations; Emergency vehicles; Hazards and emergency operations; Medical services; Traffic crashes
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00144166
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
- Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-024-1-115
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 13 1977 12:00AM