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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-3-17
pubmed:abstractText
In forensic casework, investigation of injury severity in traffic accidents is important for evaluating the mortality, occasionally in terms of the adequacy of clinical management. The present study evaluated 5 cases of clinically unexpected delayed collapse followed by death using the abbreviated injury scale (AIS), injury severity score (ISS), and a clinical trauma care method (trauma and injury severity score, TRISS). In these cases, major injury (AIS = 3-5) was found in the head, chest and/or abdomen at autopsy, and ISS was estimated to be 11-45 (serious to critical but not incompatible with life). By the TRISS method, the probability of survival (P (s)) was estimated to be >0.5 for all cases (0.60-0.99), suggesting that these were preventable deaths. However, the present cases showed several common features: (a) fatality due to closed injury/-ies to the thoracic and/or abdominal viscera, (b) alert and poor symptoms/clinical signs, and (c) poor positive findings in diagnostic imaging at early times after injury, and (d) complications of other evident injuries, suggesting difficulties in the clinical diagnosis of potentially fatal injuries, but (e) possibly predictable fatal injury when typical patterns of traffic accident injury were considered.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1547-769X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
4
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
153-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Abbreviated Injury Scale, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Accidents, Traffic, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Forensic Pathology, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Hematoma, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Hemorrhage, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Hemothorax, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Injury Severity Score, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Kidney, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Liver, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Lung Injury, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Mammary Arteries, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Mathematics, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Mediastinal Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Peritonitis, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Retroperitoneal Space, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Rupture, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Survival Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:19291453-Traumatology
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Forensic pathological evaluation of injury severity and fatal outcome in traffic accidents: five illustrative autopsy cases of clinically unexpected death.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Legal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Asahi-machi 1-4-3, Abeno, Osaka 545-8585, Japan. michi.leg@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports