Citation

Hatfield LM, McSwain NE. Proc. Am. Assoc. Automot. Med. Annu. Conf. 1976; 20: 211-220.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1976, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

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Abstract

The current emphasis on automobile safety has to be attributed with many lives being saved and pain and injury being lessened to a much greater degree. These modern safety factors and new automobiles being manufactured today, however are beginning to present problems to the ambulance and rescue personnel in their efforts to get into automobile accident victims which have become pinned or trapped within an automobile. This paper will discuss the modern problems which are being experienced by emergency medical technicians and rescue personnel who are faced with having to gain immediate access to an automobile accident victim in a vehicle which has become inaccessible through normal channels or routes. The problems of todays modern safety locks and new windshield design and manufacture will be addressed in how they have presented problems to efforts to deliver emergency care and aid at the scene of an automobile accident.