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Article: Crash-Scene Research Eye Hidden Injuries
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- January 13, 2003
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Rattled but apparently not badly hurt, Marie Helen Jadotte walked
away from a car wreck, going to a hospital only at a police officer'
s insistence. She was shocked to hear she had a life-threatening liver
injury.
In fact, in the frantic rush after an accident, serious injuries often
can go undetected without close observation by emergency crews.
Now a government-supported program linking hospitals around the country
is seeking to document injury patterns from automobile crashes. The
goals are to help doctors spot hidden injuries and aid engineers in
designing safer vehicles.
"The more we understand patterns, the better we ...