The Trauma Professional's Blog
Highlights
- Overall, people who don’t wear seat belts have a 10% chance of abdominal injury. With seat belts in place, this increases to 15%. And if the person is wearing seat belts and has a seat belt sign, the risk of injury increases to 65%! (View Highlight)
- Seat belts are associated with the Chance fracture, an uncommon fracture of the lumbar spine, usually at L1. These usually only occur with the use of lap belts without shoulder restraints (View Highlight)
- Any patient with a seat belt sign must have an abdominal CT (View Highlight)