Crash Injuries - How and Why They Happen : A Primer For Anyone Who Cares About People in Cars

This book is written for anyone with an interest in crash injuries: physician, nurse, engineer, consumer advocate, attorney, insurance claim adjuster, paramedic or whomever: anyone with an interest in what happens in crashes & how the injuries they cause come about. By explaining how crash injuries occur, this book may also hold interest for anyone concerned with preventing or minimizing crash injuries. The book contains twelve chapters. 1) A crash course on car crash. 2) Vehicles, victims, & velocities. 3) How we break & tear the stuff we are made of. 4) Wherein we define, describe & damage muscles, bones, & joints. 5) Crash injuries of the extremities. 6) Crash injuries of the abdomen. 7) Crash injuries of the chest. 8) Crash injuries of the head, its face & the brain within. 9) The Spine. 10) Seat belts & other restraints--what they can do, what they cannot do, what they cannot do, how they help & how they hurt. 11) Injury measurement scales. 12) Patterns of injury in frontal, lateral, rear, & rollover crashes.Crash Injuries - How and Why They Happen : A Primer For Anyone Who Cares About People in Cars, was published 1993 under ISBN 9780963705709 and ISBN 0963705709.