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Air Bag Alert by B.Tilman Jolly; Jeffrey W Runge; Knox H Todd is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Health care professionals' advice to parents Air bags are standard equipment in most new cars and are intended to work as restraint system supplemental to lap/shoulder belts for front-seat occupants in frontal collisions. Air bags are stowed in two places: the steering-wheel hub, on the driver's side; and under the instrument-panel covering on the passenger's side. The air bag is designed to deploy in crashes that occur at a specific speed; in most vehicles this ranges from 8 to 14 mph. To do its job the air bag must open and fill rapidly before the occupant has entered the air bag's deployment zone. The air bag system must sense the crash, initiate deployment, and fill the bag, all in less than a tenth of a second. With this rapid inflation the velocity of the bag may reach 200 mph. The risk of injury or death from an opening air bag occurs if an occupant is unbelted and thrown out of position (ie, into the deployment zone) during precrash braking, placing the occupant too close to the air bag before it inflates fully. Air bags have been proved effective in doing the job for which they were designed. However, the air bag that saves an adult's life can kill a child. An infant in a

Who reads Air Bag Alert?

Author

B.Tilman Jolly; Jeffrey W Runge; Knox H Todd

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Mosby Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1097-6760)

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)