Preventing the disaster: severe abdominal injury in child passengers of motor vehicle accidents often indicate even more serious trauma
Child passengers of motor vehicle accidents are in need of a specific and age-related attention towards security systems. Severe injuries in children are rare, yet life threatening. The highest mortality rate is related to severe TBI, especially in the youngest children. But also severe abdominal as well as thoracic injuries their concomitant trauma need to be prevented and are indicators for even more severe injuries. It seems to be favorable for cMVP to be directly transported to designated special centers with sufficient capacity and competency to treat and manage severely injured children.
Authors
- Gerd Müller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5743-4393)
- Hauke Rüther
- Lars Hackenberg
- Corinna Carla Dobroniak
- Rolf L. Lefering (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0141-1747)
- Dan Bieler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-1259)
- Christopher Spering (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8962-2356)
- Wolfgang Lehmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7178-301X)
Institutions
- Witten/Herdecke University (DE)
- Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (DE)
- Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus Koblenz (DE)
- Bundeswehr
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (DE)
- Technische Universität Berlin (DE)
- University of Göttingen (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
- Published
- 2025-03-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-025-02811-z
- Primary Topic
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00