Current procedures for estimating occupant risk in real-world vehicle crashes do not account for the performance of the occupant restraints, such as seatbelts and airbags. This paper compares the ability of two restraint performance metrics, the ridedown efficiency and the restraint quotient, to predict occupant injury as measured by a crash test dummy. The responses of crash test dummies were ...

Since Bright's day the study of glomerulonephritis has largely consisted in the observation of the clinical, biochemical, and morphological characteristics of patients. Linked to this has been the attempt to name and classify these data in a fashion which improved prediction of outcome and response to treatment. This has proved difficult, since there is no absolute correspondence between clinic...

The primary objective was to assess whether prospectively observed quality of parent-child interaction in infancy and middle childhood contributed to the prediction of borderline symptoms and recurrent suicidality/self-injury in late adolescence. Adolescents (mean 19.9 years) from 56 families participating in a longitudinal study since infancy (retention rate 74%) were assessed on the SCID-II f...

Head injury remains an important cause of death and disability in young adults. This review will discuss the role of structural imaging using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and physiological imaging using CT perfusion, 131Xe CT, MRI and spectroscopy (MRS), single photon emission computed tomography, and positron emission tomography (PET) in the assessment, managem...

CONTEXT Minimizing negative consequences of major depression following traumatic brain injury is an important public health objective. Identifying high-risk patients and referring them for treatment could reduce morbidity and loss of productivity. OBJECTIVE To develop a model for early screening of patients at risk for major depressive episode at 3 months after traumatic brain injury. DESIG...

Many studies have constructed predictive models for outcome after traumatic brain injury. Most of these attempts focused on dichotomous result, such as alive vs dead or good outcome vs poor outcome. If we want to predict more specific levels of outcome, we need more sophisticated models. We conducted this study to determine if artificial neural network modeling would predict outcome in five lev...

When is it safe to forego a CT in kids with head trauma? New clinical prediction rules make it easier to identify children at low risk of serious brain injury—and reduce the reliance on CT scanning. Use these newly derived and validated clinical prediction rules to decide which kids need a CT scan after head injury. A: Based on consistent, good-quality patient-oriented evidence. Kuppermann N, H...

Inhalation injury greatly increases the incidence of respiratory failure and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. It is also the cause of most early deaths in burn victims. The aim of our research was to study the incidence, early diagnosis, complications, and management of inhalation injury and to discuss the relation between inhalation injury and death in burn patients.This study included...