PERFORMANCE OF ADVANCED AIR BAGS BASED ON DATA WILLIAM LEHMAN INJURY RESEARCH CENTER AND NEW NASS PSUS

The authors, members of the Blue Ribbon Panel for Evaluation of Depowered and Advanced Airbags, discuss briefly the results of their research using data from the William Lehman Injury Research Center at the University of Miami. The Ryder Trauma Center is a Level I trauma center that treats only the most severely injured occupants of vehicle crashes as well as other severe cases of trauma. Among the Ryder Trauma Center cases, 50% are Maximum Abbreviated Injury Score (MAIS) 3+ and 25% are fatal. The total database of frontal crash cases with no rollover consists of 147 drivers with first-generation airbags and 58 cases with second-generation airbags. There were 9 fatalities at speeds less than 20 mph with first-generation airbags. For second-generation airbags, there were no fatalities below 25 mph. The fatality rate for crashes above 40 mph also was considerably lower for second-generation airbags. Other conclusions from the trauma center data are also discussed, and the negative impact of the recently enacted Health Insurance Privacy and Portability Act (HIPPA) on crash injury research is briefly explained.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)

  P.O. Box 4176
  Barrington, IL  United States  60011-4176
• Authors:
  • AUGENSTEIN, J
  • DIGGES, K
• Conference:
  • Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine 47th Annual Conference
  • Location: Lisbon, Portugal
  • Date: 2003-9-22 to 2003-9-24
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 99-101
• Serial:
  • Publication of: ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE
  • Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)
  • ISSN: 0892-6484

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air bags; Crash injury research; Fatalities; Frontal crashes; Injury severity; Performance; Speed
• Identifier Terms: Health Insurance Privacy and Portability Act
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00964906
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 21 2003 12:00AM