title: Pediatric occupant car safety: clinical implications based on recent literature.
abstract: Seat belts and child safety seats can provide effective protection against serious and fatal injuries, but motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) remain a leading cause of death and injury among infants and children. Recent fatalities associated with air bags have intensified awareness of pediatric occupant car safety issues. A review of pediatric literature from 1989 to 1997 summarizes studies on the correct use, incorrect use, and non-use of child safety restraint devices; injuries patterns to children as occupants in MVCs; transporting children with special needs; lethal air bag injuries; and injury prevention educational programs.
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000367:Age Factors; D001835:Body Weight; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007255:Information Services; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D017751:Safety Management / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods*; D012622:Seat Belts; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*