Predictors of Pediatric Abdominal Injury Risk

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristy B. Arbogast ◽  
Irene Chen ◽  
Michael L. Nance ◽  
Dennis R. Durbin ◽  
Flaura K. Winston
Keyword(s):  
Injury Risk ◽  
Abdominal Injury

Assessing Submarining and Abdominal Injury Risk in the Hybrid III Family of Dummies

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen W. Rouhana ◽  
David C. Viano ◽  
Edward A. Jedrzejczak ◽  
Joseph D. McCleary
Keyword(s):  
Injury Risk ◽  
Abdominal Injury ◽  
Hybrid Iii

Evaluating Abdominal Injury in Impacts with Workstation Tables

2005 ◽  
Vol 1908 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Parent ◽  
David Tyrell ◽  
Benjamin Perlman ◽  
Peter Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Injury Risk ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Abdominal Injury ◽  
Test Results ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Hybrid Iii ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Scale Test ◽  
Thoracic And Abdominal ◽  
The Impact

In rail passenger seating arrangements with workstation tables, there is a risk of serious thoracic and abdominal injury. Strategies to mitigate this injury risk are being developed through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration and the Rail Safety and Standards Board of the United Kingdom. The approach to developing the protection strategies involves collision investigations, computer simulations of the occupant response, and full-scale testing. During the train collision in Placentia, California, on April 23, 2002, many occupants hit workstation tables. The investigation indicated the likely modes of injury caused by the impact, the most traumatic being damage to the liver and spleen. A MADYMO computer simulation was created to estimate the loads and accelerations imparted on the occupants that brought about these injuries. Two experiments were designed and executed on a full-scale impact test with an occupant environment similar to the Placentia collision. These experiments incorporated advanced anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) with increased abdominal instrumentation. The THOR (test device for human occupant restraint) ATD showed a more humanlike impact response than did the Hybrid III Railway Safety ATD. The full-scale test results are used to refine a MADYMO model of the THOR ATD to evaluate improved workstation tables. The occupant protection strategy that will be developed requires that the table remain rigidly attached to the car body and includes a frangible edge with a force–crush characteristic designed to minimize the abdominal load and compression. MADYMO simulations of this table design show a significantly reduced risk of severe abdominal injury.

Clinical Update: Functional Capacity Evaluations—An Update

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Welch
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Functional Capacity ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Disability Evaluation ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Submaximal Effort ◽  
Lack Of Sleep ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Specific Limitation

Abstract Functional capacity evaluations (FCEs) have become an important component of disability evaluation during the past 10 years to assess an individual's ability to perform the essential or specific functions of a job, both preplacement and during rehabilitation. Evaluating both job performance and physical ability is a complex assessment, and some practitioners are not yet certain that an FCE can achieve these goals. An FCE is useful only if it predicts job performance, and factors that should be assessed include overall performance; consistency of performance across similar areas of the FCE; consistency between observed behaviors during the FCE and limitations or abilities reported by the worker; objective changes (eg, blood pressure and pulse) that are appropriate relative to performance; external factors (illness, lack of sleep, or medication); and a coefficient of variation that can be measured and assessed. FCEs can identify specific movement patterns or weaknesses; measure improvement during rehabilitation; identify a specific limitation that is amenable to accommodation; and identify a worker who appears to be providing a submaximal effort. FCEs are less reliable at predicting injury risk; they cannot tell us much about endurance over a time period longer than the time required for the FCE; and the FCE may measure simple muscular functions when the job requires more complex ones.

Evidence-Based Assessment of Pediatric Injury and Injury Risk

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan T. Karazsia ◽  
Keri J. Brown Kirschman
Keyword(s):  
Injury Risk ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Pediatric Injury

Anterior cruciate ligament injury risk factors in football

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Nicola Bisciotti ◽  
Karim Chamari ◽  
Emanuele Cena ◽  
Andrea Bisciotti ◽  
Alessandro Bisciotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Anterior Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Ligament Injury ◽  
Injury Risk Factors ◽  
Anterior Cruciate

Injury-Risk Evaluation in Water Ice Climbing

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Schöffl ◽  
Isabelle Schöffl ◽  
Ulrich Schwarz ◽  
Friedrich Hennig ◽  
Thomas Küpper
Keyword(s):  
Risk Evaluation ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Water Ice
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