ON THE PROBLEM OF AGE SPECIFICS OF CHILD CAR TRAUMATISM 

Savenkova Ekaterina Nikolaevna, Candidate of medical sciences, associate professor, sub-department of forensic medicine named after M.I. Raysky, Saratov State Medical University named after V. I. Razumovsky (112 Bolshaya Kazachya street, Saratov, Russia), savocheka@mail.ru
Efimov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, Candidate of medical sciences, associate professor, head of sub-department of forensic medicine named after M. I. Raysky, Saratov State Medical University named after V. I. Razumovsky (112 Bolshaya Kazachya street, Saratov, Russia), sudmedsar@mail.ru
Semizhonova Valeriya Nikolaevna, Intern, sub-department of forensic medicine named after M.I. Raysky, Saratov State Medical University named after V. I. Razumovsky (112 Bolshaya Kazachya street, Saratov, Russia), sudmedsar@mail.ru
Kupryushin Aleksey Stepanovich, Candidate of medical sciences, associate professor, head of sub-department of clinical morphology and forensic medicine with a course of oncology, Medical Institute, Penza State University (40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia), kas-agm@rambler.ru

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Background. The purpose of the study is to comparatively analyze age specifics of injuries of children in not lethal cases as a result of a road accident trauma inside a vehicle cabin and an impact by a moving car parts.
Materials and methods. The study was conducted using clinical material – the authors studied case cards of in-patient children with transport traumas as a result of impacts by parts of moving cars (children-pedestrians) and inside a vehicle cabin (children- passengers).
Results. It is established that in children-pedestrians the main damage is head trauma; with older age the amount of femur fractures significantly decreases and the amount of tibial fractures increases. For children-passengers the authors revealed no dependence of the age on the mechanism of getting injured.
Conclusions. The research established that the age of children determines their stature data, which, in turn, effect the mechanism of injury in a transport accident, and in most cases, this influence can be seen in children-pedestrians after an impact by parts of a moving car. 

transport trauma, children, age. 

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