Optimal performance of vehicle occupant restraint system (ORS) requires an accurate assessment of occupant injury values including head, neck and chest responses, etc.
Assessment using lateral displacement of the thoracic spine correlated positively with chest compression and Viscous Criterion, with the benefit of evaluating whole thorax response and provides a useful metric to compare occupant response for different side impact safety systems.
For inferior bar impacts, the chest compression response was 116% of the chest compression in the middle.
The indications for immediate transfer to hospital are based on clinical signs (e.g. unable to speak or drink, subcostal retraction, silent chest), the response to initial treatment, and the social environment at home.
The analysed results consist of responses, evaluated with respect to differences in the impacting shape and impact heights on compression and viscous criteria chest injury responses.
From the analysis it could be concluded that the bar impact shape provides lower chest criteria responses compared to the hub.
Appropriate imaging studies to assess objective response (chest X-ray, abdomen ultrasound, CT scan of thorax and abdomen, bone scintigraphy or X-ray) were performed after the 1st, 3rd and 5th cycle of treatment.
Your chest expands in response, your lungs fill with air and then you sneeze everywhere.
The final diagnoses as determined by the treating clinicians as the charted discharge diagnosis (based on clinical presentation, laboratory studies, and chest film findings, response to treatment and ultrasound findings) of the enrolled patients are illustrated in Table 2.
After three cycles, patients were restaged and evaluated by computed tomography of the chest for treatment response and operability.
