Comparative Study of Restrained Child Dummies and Cadavers in Experimental Crashes

Cassan, F. Brun; Pagé, Martin; Pincemaille, Y.; Kallieris, Dimitrios; Tarrière, C

doi:10.4271/933105

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“…The authors reported that gross motion appeared to be very similar between the dummy and the child cadaver; however, significant differences in relative head/torso kinematics were observed. Brun-Cassan et al (1993) compared the response of the TNO P3 and CRABI 3-year-old with cadaver test data from Kallieris et al (1976) and noted similar limitations in the kinematic responses and dynamic data compared to the injuries observed in the cadaver tests.…”

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Reconstruction of Crashes Involving Injured Child Occupants: The Risk of Serious Injuries Associated with Sub-Optimal Restraint Use May Be Reduced by Better Controlling Occupant Kinematics

Bilston

Yuen

Brown

2007

Traffic Injury Prevention

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Dummy kinematics suggest that injuries in which inappropriate use and misuse were a factor were less likely if the most appropriate restraint was used correctly. Adequately controlling the head and upper body of the child occupant was seen to prevent undesirable interactions with the vehicle interior and restraint system, which were associated with injury in the real world. Neck forces and moments and injury criteria calculated from these did not predict injury reliably.

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Reconstruction of Crashes Involving Injured Child Occupants: The Risk of Serious Injuries Associated with Sub-Optimal Restraint Use May Be Reduced by Better Controlling Occupant Kinematics

Bilston

Yuen

Brown

2007

Traffic Injury Prevention

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“…No abdominal organ injuries were sustained. There are several other studies of full-body pediatric PMHS sled tests [126,127,130]; only one subject -a 6-year-old in a five-point child restraint harness sustained any injury to the abdominal organs (liver contusion of unknown severity). These tests are described in more detail elsewhere in this chapter.…”

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“…To the authors' knowledge, 15 pediatric whole body PMHS sled tests have been conducted to date. Subjects range in age from 2 to 13 years at speeds from 31 to 50 km/h [126][127][128][129][130]. These studies examine a diverse set of restraint conditions and the instrumentation, documentation and injury coding reflect the age in which the studies were done.…”

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Pediatric Biomechanics

Arbogast¹,

Maltese²

2014

Accidental Injury

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During the human postnatal developmental process, extensive tissue and morphological changes occur. Many take place in the first few years of life but substantial development for several body regions continues well into young adulthood. Along with overall change in size, these material and structural changes influence the biomechanical response of child such that they respond differently to traumatic load than an adult. Understanding the unique biomechanical response of the child is challenging, as compared to the wealth of biomechanical data on the adult response to trauma, pediatric biomechanical data are relatively sparse. As a result, quantitative scaling relationships based on anatomical and material differences have been historically used to understand the biomechanics of the child. The last decade, however, has seen a tremendous increase in contributions to the biomechanics literature based upon pediatric subjects -volunteers, postmortem human subjects, and animal models -thus increasing our knowledge of how to design injury mitigation systems to protect the young.In this chapter, aspects of developmental anatomy and biomechanical knowledge are reviewed to provide context for pediatric human injury prediction. Emphasis is initially placed on the head and brain as this body region represents the most common seriously injured body region for children in virtually all unintentional injury modes. Specifically, head injuries are particularly relevant clinically as the developing brain is difficult to evaluate and treat, and even mild brain injuries in childhood can lead to deficits that remain long after the injury. Discussion follows on the cervical spine and thorax as these body regions are not only important from an injury mitigation standpoint but they govern the kinematics of the head during traumatic loading and therefore play a role in head injury protection. A brief description follows for the other body regions: the abdomen

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“…This pediatric hub impact data were re-analyzed by Parent et al (2010) minimizing instrumentation and processing error to improve the fidelity of the data. Sled tests were performed on twelve pediatric PMHS ages 2-13 years old (Kallieris et al 1976and 1978, Mattern et al 2002, Wismans et al 1979, Dejeammes et al 1984, Brun-Cassan et al 1993. Restraints used for these pediatric PMHS tests included a lap belt with a shield booster, 4-point and 5-point harnesses, and 3-point belts.…”

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“…A summary of the pediatric PMHS and volunteer tests and their limitations are shown in Table 1.1. Kallieris et al 1976and 1978, Mattern et al 2002, Wismans et al 1979, Dejeammes et al 1984, Brun-Cassan et al 1993 *Only the older subjects had a 3-point belt restraint, younger subjects had a lap shield booster restraint.…”

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Assessment of Macropus giganteus as a Biomechanical Model of the Pediatric Thorax

Lau¹,

Rafaels²,

Bass³

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Comparative Study of Restrained Child Dummies and Cadavers in Experimental Crashes

Cited by 20 publications

References 9 publications

Reconstruction of Crashes Involving Injured Child Occupants: The Risk of Serious Injuries Associated with Sub-Optimal Restraint Use May Be Reduced by Better Controlling Occupant Kinematics

Reconstruction of Crashes Involving Injured Child Occupants: The Risk of Serious Injuries Associated with Sub-Optimal Restraint Use May Be Reduced by Better Controlling Occupant Kinematics

Pediatric Biomechanics

Assessment of Macropus giganteus as a Biomechanical Model of the Pediatric Thorax

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