Daniela Heinrich1, Christopher Holzmann2, Anja Wagner3, Anja Fischer3, Roman Pfeifer2, Matthias Graw4, Sylvia Schick3. 1. Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Institute of Legal Medicine, Nussbaumstrasse 26, D-80336, Munich, Germany. dani.heinrich@gmx.com. 2. Department of Accident and Reconstructive Surgery, Hospital of the RWTH University Aachen, Pauwelsstrasse 30, D-52074, Aachen, Germany. 3. Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Institute of Legal Medicine, Nussbaumstrasse 26, D-80336, Munich, Germany. 4. Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Head of the Institute of Legal Medicine, Nussbaumstrasse 26, D-80336, Munich, Germany.
Abstract
Older traffic participants have higher risks of injury than the population up to 65 years in case of comparable road traffic accidents and further, higher mortality rates at comparable injury severities. Rib fractures as risk factors are currently discussed. However, death on scene is associated with hardly survivable injuries and might not be a matter of neither rib fractures nor age. As 60% of traffic accident fatalities are estimated to die on scene, they are not captured in hospital-based trauma registries and injury patterns remain unknown. Our database comprises 309 road traffic fatalities, autopsied at the Institute of Legal Medicine Munich in 2004 and 2005. Injuries are coded according to Abbreviated Injury Scale, AIS
Older traffic participants have higher risks of injury than the population up to 65 years in case of comparable road traffic accidents and further, higher mortality rates at comparable injury severities. Rib fractures as risk factors are currently discussed. However, death on scene is associated with hardly survivable injuries and might not be a matter of neither rib fractures nor age. As 60% of traffic accident fatalities are estimated to die on scene, they are not captured in hospital-based trauma registries and injury patterns remain unknown. Our database comprises 309 road traffic fatalities, autopsied at the Institute of Legal Medicine Munich in 2004 and 2005. Injuries are coded according to Abbreviated Injury Scale, AIS
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