What kind of injuries do MVA victims get?

[linda2097]

What are the most common injuries from serious car accidents?

[RN1982]

Head and chest trauma, internal bleeding from lacerations on the liver and other organs.

[Creamsoda, ASN, RN]

Head trauma

Broken bones. Anything you can think of,

spinal cord injuries anywhere from parapalegia to quadrapelegia

Various organ injuries. Pneumo/hemo thorax, perforated colon, liver/spleen laceration, various degrees of road rash. Massive bleeding due to the injuries.

[rjflyn, ASN, RN]

The most common if seat belted and the car has an airbag are simple contusions/abrasions and and aches and pains if the crash was minor.

More serious impacts more serious injuries. In 20+ yrs as an emergency care provider ie as a paramedic for 10 years and now as a RN it would be easier to say what body part doesn't get injured. I can frankly say I have seen about every body part lacerated, crushed, fractured, avulsed or contused.

Rj

[EricJRN, MSN, RN]

You have the most common MVA injuries here, but what you'll also find is that you can also break injuries down by the type of impact the patient sustained (rear impact crash, frontal, lateral, etc).

[mcs1505]

I'm still a student but on the trauma floor this semester I had my share of MVAs and I think between them they had pretty much every injury possible covered. It seems the one they had most in common (aside from the general abrasions and contusions) was a fractured pelvis.