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Kraft-Kinz, J; Zalaudek, G.
Traffic accidents and seat belts: thorax injuries (author's transl)].
Langenbecks Arch Chir. 1978; 347:359-365
Doi: 10.1007/BF01579356
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- The types of injuries to 313 automobile accident victims, especially thorax injuries, are compared. Independent of seat belt use (42%), there was in general a higher degree of injury. Those wearing seat belts had a markedly less severe AISm (median degree of injury of body region) and less severe thorax injury. Severe thorax injury was first found at speeds greater than 24 km/h above average. Severer thorax injury is to be expected with defective seat belts (AISm = 1.25) than with properly functioning belts (AISm = 0.32).
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