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The seminar week 45 is hosted by Jolyon Carroll, Autoliv and SAFER’s Research Area Director for Human Body Protection! Our focus this time will be injury detection and prevention, welcome!

Safety systems, injury detection and lessons learnt from an emergency services prospective
Speaker: Steve Jones, Flight Paramedic London's Air Ambulance, The Royal London Hospital

Vehicle safety systems have continued to advance to combat the Law of Inertia first reported by Sir Isaac Newton in 1886, even though Newton had discovered this 200 years before the 1st car, it is as important now as it is was then for the pre-hospital clinician to both have an understanding of the biomechanics that an occupant or pedestrian will go through when involved in a collision and also how safety systems can impact on the injury load both positively and negatively. Occult injury detection is a skill that the pre-hospital clinician must master and can only be done by understanding how the body and vehicle; along with its protection systems, react when coming together. In this presentation we hope to show the value of vehicle manufactures and emergency medical services sharing expert knowledge and in turn benefiting the casualty when involved in a collision.

Steve Jones has served with the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust as frontline Paramedic for over 33 years. He currently splits his duties 50% as a motorcycle Paramedic in central London and the other 50% as a Flight Paramedic with London's Air Ambulance (LAA) serving the capital in a Doctor/Paramedic team tasked primarily to major trauma patients. He has a special interest in RTC patient entrapment & extrication and is the lead for joint LAA & fire service training. He is also a clinical course director for the Institute of Pre-Hospital Care which is the educational arm of London's Air Ambulance and also hold an honorary lecturer's position for Queen Mary University London.

Safety for everyone, always – taking variability into account
Speaker: Johan Iraeus, Researcher at Injury Prevention, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences at Chalmers University and responsible for the development of SAFER's human body models

Traditionally passive occupant safety have been evaluated in standardized physical tests using crash test dummies representing a few fixed anthropometries. Strict test protocols are used to minimize inter-test variability. However, real life crashes shows an infinite variation in crash configurations and occupant anthropometries. With the introduction of virtual testing, using computer simulations with human body models, we have the possibility to account for at least some of this variability. In this presentation I will give some details about some of the past and present SAFER related projects dealing with this variability.
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This seminar is only open for SAFER partners. Missing your invitation? Please contact Mikael von Redlich.