Progress in study of road traffic injuries
- VernacularTitle:道路交通伤研究进展
- Author:
Zhengguo WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Trauma;
Injury;
Traffic injury
- From:
Chinese Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma
2002;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Nowadays, more than 1 million people died and about 15 million people injuried as a result of traffic accidents every year in the world. The incidence of traffic injuries on road tends increasingly today. The injuried and died cases most commonly were the young whose damages were characterized as multiple injury. Causes of the accidents were mainly the human factors. The young adults aged less than 24 years and the old aged more than 70 years were in the majority. The traffic accidents have it's own proneness. The viscous injury criterion can be used as a most effective trauma index. The necessary measures for reducing the traffic accident and decreasing mortality should be considered the comprehensive treatments as follows: strengthening the research of the traffic safety, the management and the education, completing the medical service system, strengthening the first-aid of trauma, and shortening the first-aid reactive time.
