Standardized

Child Passenger Safety

Training Program
Winter 2004

Basics of
Injury
Prevention
Objectives
• Define injury
• Describe significance of MVC injuries
• Describe problem of misuse of CRSs
• Explain relationship of injury prevention
to CPS
• Explain appropriate interventions in three
phases of a crash

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Why Are We Here?
• Traffic crashes are the leading cause of
unintentional severe injuries & death.
• Many of these deaths and injuries could
have been prevented with proper restraint
use.
• Because we care and together we can
make a difference.

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Defining Injury
• Caused by the transfer of energy to
tissues
• Results from acute exposure to thermal,
mechanical, electrical, or chemical
energy
• Can be unintentional or intentional
damage

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Injury Prevention

• Reducing the risk

of injury
• Methods not 100%
effective
• CRASHES are NOT
ACCIDENTS!

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What is an injury?
A) Incident where blood in involved
B) Damage to the body resulting from
energy transfer to the tissues
C) Car crashes bringing pain to babies
D) The misuse of prevention systems

Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

What is an injury?
• Incident where blood in involved
• Damage to the body resulting from
energy transfer to the tissues
• Car crashes bringing pain to babies
• The misuse of prevention systems

Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

Fatalities ...
•Are just the tip of the
iceberg
•For every 1 death
there are
- 45 injuries requiring
hospitalization and
- 1100 other injuries
requiring medical
care

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Injury Facts
• Unintentional injuries = leading cause of
childhood deaths
• MVC = 42 % of all unintentional injury-
related deaths
• 6 children killed………..each day in 2001
• 732 children injured……each day in 2001
• Annual cost of childhood MVC
deaths/injuries = exceeds $ 36 billion

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Child Restraint Effectiveness

• 71% effective in
reducing deaths
for infants
• 54% for 1 to 4 year
olds
• Reduces the need
for hospitalization
by 69%

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CPS Issues
• Nonuse = 40%
• Misuse = at least 80%
• Incompatibility
• Effective dissemination of new
information
• Changing existing behavior patterns

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Misuse

• National SAFE KIDS

Campaign CPS
Checkup events
82%
- February 2001 to May
2002.
Mi suse
- 37,000+ child safety seats
and vehicle safety belts
• Results: 18%
- 82% misuse overall Correct
- Average of three errors / Use
misused restraint

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What percentage of car seats
are misused by the general public?

A) 50-60%
B) 60-70%
C) 70-80%
D) Over 80%

Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

What percentage of car seats
are misused by the general public?

• 50-60%
• 60-70%
• 70-80%
• Over 80%

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Phases of a Crash

Socio-
Human Vehicle Physical
Economic

Road Traffic
Pre-Crash Vision Brakes
Conditions Laws

Restraint Vehicle Guard Seat Belt

Crash Use Size Rails Laws

Post- Fuel
Age EMS Training
Crash System

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EMS response time and handling of a
crash victim is a factor in which
phase of a crash?
A) Pre-crash phase
B) Crash phase
C) Post-crash phase
D) None of the crash phases

Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

EMS response time and handling of a
crash victim is a factor in which
phase of a crash?
• Pre-crash phase
• Crash phase
• Post-crash phase
• None of the crash phases

Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004