TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Does placenta position modify the risk of placental abruption in car crashes?
JO  - Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
A1  - Delotte, Jérome
A1  - Behr, Michel
A1  - Thollon, Lionel
A1  - Bongain, A.
A1  - Brunet, Christian
SP  - 399
EP  - 405
VL  - 12
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1025-5842
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10255840802649707
ID  - ref1
ER  -