<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Implementation of airbags systems in motor vehicles designed to transport of persons led in time to a significant decrease of the rate of death among passengers involved in car accidents. However airbag systems are not harmless, it produces lesions that vary in intensity depending on many factors. But decidedly, we can meet injuries associated with the triggering of the airbag system. Therefore, it must be made a clear difference between the two types of injuries, this being particularly important in terms of medico-legal especially regarding the mechanism of injury.</p></abstract>

Implementation of airbags systems in motor vehicles designed to transport of persons led in time to a significant decrease of the rate of death among passengers involved in car accidents. However airbag systems are not harmless, it produces lesions that vary in intensity depending on many factors. But decidedly, we can meet injuries associated with the triggering of the airbag system. Therefore, it must be made a clear difference between the two types of injuries, this being particularly important in terms of medico-legal especially regarding the mechanism of injury.

Injury caused by airbag VS. injuries associated with airbag deploys

University “Ovidius” Constanta, Faculty of Medicine, Medico-Legal Discipline

Medico-Legal Discipline, Faculty of medicine, University “Ovidius” Constanţa, Romania Aleea Universitatii, Nr. 1, Campus B Constanţa, Romania

ARS Medica Tomitana

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Implementation of airbags systems in motor vehicles designed to transport of persons led in time to a significant decrease of the rate of death among...

Injury caused by airbag VS. injuries associated with airbag deploys

Publicado en línea: 23 abr 2014

Páginas: 19 - 24

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/arsm-2014-0004

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This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.