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Article: Research Consortium Advances Understanding of Cervical Spine Injuries in Children Involved in Motor Vehicle Crashes.(Report)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- September 7, 2009
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New research published this month in the journal Injury finds that while fatal cervical spine injuries to children in motor vehicle crashes are rare, they are more commonly seen in girls, in children who were restrained in passenger restraints, and in children who also suffered traumatic brain injury due to the crash (see also Pediatrics).
Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania and Ohio State University Medical Center studied 6,065 children younger than 16 years old and found that only 2.9% of the fatalities involved a cervical spine injury. "This research confirms that cervical spine injuries are no more common in ...