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This page contains links to web site resources having to do with pregnancy-related crash injury and trauma. It was last updated on Monday, February 27, 2006. The information is indexed by the following categories:

Recorded Online Seminars and Presentations

• Injuries During Pregnancy: Understanding and Tracking the Hidden Epidemic (third group down) - 12/11/03. This material, consisting of 5 multimedia presentations, is derived from a Special Session presented at the CDC Safety In Numbers Conference, in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Pregnancy and Injury: Birth of a New Field - 04/28/03. This material, consisting of six multimedia presentations, is from a Special Panel Session presented at The Ninth Annual Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Epidemiology Conference held December 10-12, 2003 in Tempe, Arizona.
• Car Crashes During Pregnancy Webinar - 5/27/04. Hank Weiss, PhD, MPH, Center for Injury Research and Control, University of Pittsburgh & Monica Randall, BA, Seattle, Washington
  (Please visit the Elluminate Live! software installation page to load the viewing software for this recorded presentation)
  

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Prevention and Education - Information and downloadable brochures related to education and prevention of pregnancy-related crash injury mortality and morbidity.

• Should pregnant women wear seat belts? (NHTSA fact sheet - 2003, pdf)
• Protect your baby...now and later: English and Spanish (SafetyBeltSafe U.S.A.)
• Multiple language brochures on seatbelts and pregnancy (South Australia)
  • English Spanish Arabic Chinese Greek Italian Khmer Vietnamese
• UMHS news release on pregnant crash-test dummy  (University of Michigan - 2001)

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Grief Support - Support for patients and families who have suffered a neonatal loss.

• Crash Survivors Network for Fatal Car Crash Support
• The Compassionate Friends (TCF) Grief support after the death of a child. They also have a list of local chapters and a bereavement brochure on Stillbirth, Miscarriage and Infant Death.
• SHARE Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support - SHARE's mission is to serve those who are touched by the tragic death of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, or newborn death.
• Home Page of The Association for Death Education and Counseling.
• Hygeia, an Online Journal for Pregnancy and Neonatal Loss -  Michael R. Berman, M.D., author and editor.
• General birthing information from Childbirth.org.

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Clinical Aspects - Medical and treatment aspects of fetal trauma on the web.

• Current Medline query for "trauma and pregnancy"
   
• Trauma and Pregnancy - EMedicine article by Edward R Newton, MD, 2003.
• Pregnancy and Trauma - EMedicine article by Andrew K. Chang, M.D., Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard University, 2004.
• Abruptio Placentae - EMedicine article authored by Slava V. Gaufberg, M.D., Associate Chief, Research Director, Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard University Medical School, 2004.
• Suggested Algorithm for Management of Trauma During Pregnancy - University of Michigan, 2002.
• Management of Trauma During pregnancy Michael W. Warner et. al.
• Trauma in Pregnancy  - Georges Desjardins MD, Trauma.org
• Emergency Surgery During Pregnancy - Ralph W. Yarnell, M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995.
• Primal Health Research data bank - "Primal Health Research" explores correlations between the 'primal period' (from conception until the first birthday) and health in later life.

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Vital Statistics - Statistical links and condition coding information.

National

• A description of the National Vital Statistics System - Fetal Death Statistics

State

• Where to Write for Vital Records (NCHS list)

International

• The WHO Statistical Information System
• Search the Population Index for international vital statistics resources

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Child Death Review - Links pertaining to the establishment, operation or results of fetal and infant death investigation efforts.

• National Center on Child Fatality Review
• National Fetal Infant Mortality Review Program - American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 409 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2188.

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Legal Aspects - Discussions of legal aspects pertaining to fetal death.

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Scientific Literature

• Current Medline query for "pregnancy automobile injury"
• Current Medline query related to "fetal neurological trauma"
   
• Breysem L, Cossey V, Mussen E, Demaerel P, De Voorde WV, Smet M. Fetal trauma: brain imaging in four neonates. Eur Radiol. 2004 May 20.
• Hyde L, Cook L, Olson L, Weiss HB, Dean J., Effect of motor vehicle crashes on adverse fetal outcomes. Obstet Gynecol, 2003; 102(2), 279-286.
• Weiss HB, Lawrence BA and Miller TR. "Pregnancy associated assault hospitalizations," Obstet Gynecol, 2002; 100(3): 773-780.
• Weiss HB, Lawrence BA and Miller TR. "Prevalence & risk of pregnancy-associated motor vehicle injury hospitalizations." Proceedings of Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. Tempe, Arizona. September, 2002.
• Weiss HB, Strotmeyer S. "Characteristics of pregnant women in motor vehicle crashes." Injury Prevention, 2002 September; 8(3):207-210.
• Weiss HB, Songer TJ,, Fabio A, Fetal Deaths Related to Maternal Injury JAMA Vol. 286 No. 15, October 17, 2001 (full text)
• Weiss HB. The epidemiology of traumatic injury-related fetal mortality in Pennsylvania, 1995-1997: the role of motor vehicle crashes. Accid Anal Prev. 2001 Jul;33(4):449-54. (full text)
• Weiss HB Causes of traumatic death during pregnancy". (letter) JAMA, 2001, June 13;285(22):2854-5. (full text)
• Bochicchio GV, Napolitano LM, Haan J, Champion H, Scalea T. Incidental pregnancy in trauma patients. J Am Coll Surg. 2001 May;192(5):566-9.
• Klinich KD, Schneider LW, Moore JL, Pearlman MD. Investigations of crashes involving pregnant occupants. Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med Conf. 2000;44:37-55.
• Weiss HB. Pregnancy-associated injury hospitalizations in Pennsylvania, 1995.
  Ann Emerg Med. 1999 Nov;34(5):626-36. (full text)

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Adverse Child Impacts related to In-utero Trauma

• Current Medline query for "fetal injury mortality"
   
• Baethmann, M.; Kahn, T.; Lenard, H. G., and Voit, T. Fetal CNS damage after exposure to maternal trauma during pregnancy. Acta Paediatr. 1996 Nov; 85(11):1331-8.
• Krasemann, T.; Hoovey, S.; Uekoetter, J.; Bosse, H.; Kurlemann, G., and Debus, O. M. Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy (Ohtahara syndrome) after maternal electric injury during pregnancy: etiological considerations. Brain Dev. 2001 Aug; 23(5):359-62.
• Litmanovitz, I.; Dolfin, T.; Arnon, S.; Fleser, C.; Rathouse, V.; Feigin, M., and Regev, R. H. Fetal intrathoracic injuries following mild maternal motor vehicle accident. J Perinat Med. 2000; 28(2):158-60.
• Mancini, J.; Lethel, V.; Hugonenq, C., and Chabrol, B. Brain injuries in early foetal life: consequences for brain development. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2001 Jan; 43(1):52-5.
• Rabe, H.; Debus, O.; Frosch, M.; Stussel, J.; Louwen, F.; Kurlemann, G., and Harms, E. Periventricular cystic lesions in a preterm infant after a car accident during pregnancy. Eur J Ultrasound. 2001 Dec; 14(2-3):171-8.
• Strigini, F. A.; Cioni, G.; Canapicchi, R.; Nardini, V.; Capriello, P., and Carmignani, A. Fetal intracranial hemorrhage: is minor maternal trauma a possible pathogenetic factor? Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2001 Oct; 18(4):335-42.
• Weinberg, L.; Wyatt, J. P., and Busuttil, A. Traumatic intrauterine fetal spinal fracture following seat belt use: a case report. J Trauma. 2001 Dec; 51(6):1195-6.
• Yamamoto, T.; Koeda, T.; Ishii, S., and Takeshita, K. A patient with cerebral palsy whose mother had a traffic accident during pregnancy: a diffuse axonal injury? Brain Dev. 1999 Jul; 21(5):334-6.
• Butler DJ, Moffic HS, Turkal NW. Post-traumatic stress reactions following motor vehicle accidents. Am Fam Physician. 1999 Aug;60(2):524-31 (not specific to maternal exposure, but see following).
• David Q. Beversdorf. Major Stress During Pregnancy Linked To Autism, presented at Society for Neuroscience, 2001.

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Other Links

• Kira Fae - Kira's mother had a normal pregancy until her 21st week. After a serious car accident on December 21, 2002, ultrasounds showed fluid around Kira's brain and severe neurological problems developed. This is her story as told by her grandparents.
• Kids AND Cars -  KIDS AND CARS' mission is to assure no child dies or is injured in a non-traffic, non-crash motor vehicle-related event. 
• The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
• Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (Chemical exposures)
• First 9 months - A bandwidth intensive but beautiful illustrated introduction to normal fetal development.
• BabyCenter's coverage of Seatbelt use during pregnancy
• News story on Volvo's computer simulation of pregnant women to study effects of crashes - from Automotive News

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Web Searches

Latest Internet News, Image and Medline Searches
These searches are always the latest available from each source.

• Google™ Web search for "crash pregnant OR pregnancy"
• Google™ News search for "pregnant or crash"
• Google™ Image search for "pregnant or pregnancy crash"
• Google™ Web search for "fetal trauma"
• Google™ Newsgroup search for "fetal injury"
• Google™ Image search for "fetus"
• Medline query for "pregnancy automobile injury"
• Medline query for "fetal injury mortality"
• Medline query for "trauma and pregnancy"

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