title: Emerging technology for vehicular safety and emergency response to roadway crashes.
abstract: Emerging technology for vehicular safety and emergency response to roadway crashes is the topic of this article. Reduction in emergency medical services system notification time, improvements in vehicular safety, crash avoidance and protection, post-crash injury control, triage, national automatic crash notification systems, and technologic improvements in emergency diagnostics and treatment during the past year are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Champion
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cushing
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000639:trends; D004867:Equipment Design; D004869:Equipment Safety; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000639:trends; D018986:Motor Vehicles; D011482:Protective Devices; D012449:Safety; D013672:Technology / Q000639:trends*; D013685:Telecommunications; D013997:Time Factors; D014218:Triage; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control