title: [Comparative studies of the degree of trauma and cause of death in male and female traffic accident victims].
abstract: Comparison with regard to the degree of injury, the survival time and the cause of death in 318 male subjects killed as pedestrians in road traffic as compared to 220 female accident casualties revealed appreciable sex-specific differences in some cases. The injuries suffered were less serious in relative terms in the women. Traumatizations of the ISS classes 10 to 20 and 20 to 30 were most prominent (about 20% in each case). In men, deaths predominated at ISS 75 with 30% to 40%. About 40% of the men died of a craniocerebral trauma, between 15% and 20% of a multiple or trunk trauma, just under 10% of pneumonia and between 5% and 10% of embolism or shock. In women, fatal craniocerebral trauma was very much rarer (26%), whereas secondary causes of death were present in more than 40%. In particular, the raised risk of embolism is to be emphasized (18% as compared to 7%). The results can be interpreted in the following terms, namely that women are more gravely endangered quod vitam in the presence of comparable accident injuries.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Mittmeyer
mesh_terms: D015998:Abbreviated Injury Scale; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000401:mortality*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors
vernacular_title: Vergleichende Untersuchungen über den Traumatisierungs-grad und die Todesursache bei männlichen und weiblichen Verkehrsunfallopfern.