@article{ref1,
title="Does placenta position modify the risk of placental abruption in car crashes?",
journal="Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering",
year="2009",
author="Delotte, Jérome and Behr, Michel and Thollon, Lionel and Bongain, A. and Brunet, Christian",
volume="12",
number="4",
pages="399-405",
abstract="The goal of this paper is to study the influence of placenta position on the risk of placenta abruption following a car crash involving a full term pregnant woman in the driver's seat. We developed an anatomically precise finite element numerical model of a pregnant woman. This numerical model was validated using experimental data from crash tests using cadavers given to science. For a frontal impact at a speed of 20 km/h, the mean value of peak strain levels at the utero-placenta interface were found to be close to 20%, independent of placenta position, representing an adverse foetal outcome risk of approximately 15%. This study found no significant effect of placenta position on the risk of placenta abruption. Our anatomically precise approach does however confirm the interest of using a numerical model when studying injury mechanisms in pregnant women involved in car crashes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1025-5842",
doi="10.1080/10255840802649707",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10255840802649707"
}