Roberts Center for Pediatric Research 2716 South Street, 13th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19146
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RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
Principal Investigator: Rachel Myers, PhD
The goal of this study is to create a unique source of epidemiologic crash data that enables novel description of use and installation patterns of child restraints among crash-involved children and— following linkage with hospital discharge and death certificate data—novel description of child occupant injury outcomes based on restraint use and installation (rear- vs. forward-facing).2016-2017
- Evaluation of Side Impacts with a Frontal Component for Children in Child Restraint Systems (Multiple Year Project)
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
This project quantifies kinematics and injury metrics for 3 year old anthropomorphic test device (ATD) in oblique side impacts with a focus on assessing the potential for head injury, thus fueling understanding of head injury mechanisms for rear, center-seated occupants. This project, with its focus on an understudied area, will assess the need to prioritize future research and development efforts for car restraint system (CRS) manufacturers in the…
2015-2016
- Evaluation of Side Impacts with a Frontal Component for Children in Child Restraint Systems (Multiple Year Project)
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
This project quantifies kinematics and injury metrics for 3 year old anthropomorphic test device (ATD) in oblique side impacts with a focus on assessing the potential for head injury, thus fueling understanding of head injury mechanisms for rear, center-seated occupants. This project, with its focus on an understudied area, will assess the need to prioritize future research and development efforts for car restraint system (CRS) manufacturers in the…
2014-2015
- Evaluation of Side Impacts with a Frontal Component for Children in Child Restraint Systems (Multiple Year Project)
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
This project quantifies kinematics and injury metrics for 3 year old anthropomorphic test device (ATD) in oblique side impacts with a focus on assessing the potential for head injury, thus fueling understanding of head injury mechanisms for rear, center-seated occupants. This project, with its focus on an understudied area, will assess the need to prioritize future research and development efforts for car restraint system (CRS) manufacturers in the…- Quantifying Children’s Posture in the Rear Seat: A Naturalistic Study (Multiple Year Project)
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The long-term goal of this research is to improve test conditions and optimize restraint systems to mitigate injury to actual child occupants in real world crash scenarios. The objective is to quantify the positions and postures that rear seat child occupants assume while riding in vehicles in order to provide data for development of both technological and educational interventions to mitigate injuries due to sub-optimal positioning. The specific aim…
2012-2013
- Quantifying Children’s Posture in the Rear Seat: A Naturalistic Study (Multiple Year Project)
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The long-term goal of this research is to improve test conditions and optimize restraint systems to mitigate injury to actual child occupants in real world crash scenarios. The objective is to quantify the positions and postures that rear seat child occupants assume while riding in vehicles in order to provide data for development of both technological and educational interventions to mitigate injuries due to sub-optimal positioning. The specific aim…- Kinematics of Rear Seat Child Occupants in Small Overlap Crashes
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The long-term goal of this line of research is to gain insight into injury causation for common injuries seen by restrained occupants in the rear seat. The project objective is to quantify the kinematics of rear seat adolescent occupants in small overlap crashes and to explore the combination of crash dynamics and initial occupant position that leads to movement of head towards the lateral structures of the vehicle.
2013-2014
- Quantifying Children’s Posture in the Rear Seat: A Naturalistic Study (Multiple Year Project)
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The long-term goal of this research is to improve test conditions and optimize restraint systems to mitigate injury to actual child occupants in real world crash scenarios. The objective is to quantify the positions and postures that rear seat child occupants assume while riding in vehicles in order to provide data for development of both technological and educational interventions to mitigate injuries due to sub-optimal positioning. The specific aim…
2011-2012
- Evaluation of Hyperthermia Prevention Technologies
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
The objective of this study is to evaluate countermeasures designed to prevent children 0 to 24 months of age from being left behind in closed, parked vehicles, which has the potential to result in hyperthermia.
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Injury Risk to Belted Occupants (Multiple Year Project)
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The objective of this study is to continue exploration of the injuries and their causation experienced by seat belt restrained occupants - both adults and children - in the rear seat in order to understand if pre-teens and adolescents are at an elevated risk.- Evaluation of Hyperthermia Prevention Technologies
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The objective of this study is to evaluate countermeasures designed to prevent children 0 to 24 months of age from being left behind in closed, parked vehicles, which has the potential to result in hyperthermia.- Clavicle Fractures Due to Belt Loading in Rear-Seated Adolescent Occupants
Principal Investigator: John H. Bolte IV, PhD
The objectives of this research are to investigate the fracture tolerance of the pediatric clavicle through statistical, analytical, and radiological techniques. Using information obtained from crash data, the study will examine the sensitivity of the pediatric shoulder's response to belt loading in both oblique and frontal loading scenarios.- Clavicle Fractures Due to Belt Loading in Rear-Seated Adolescent Occupants
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The objectives of this research are to investigate the fracture tolerance of the pediatric clavicle through statistical, analytical, and radiological techniques. Using information obtained from crash data, the study will examine the sensitivity of the pediatric shoulder's response to belt loading in both oblique and frontal loading scenarios.
2010-2011
- Injury Risk to Belted Occupants (Multiple Year Project)
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The objective of this study is to continue exploration of the injuries and their causation experienced by seat belt restrained occupants - both adults and children - in the rear seat in order to understand if pre-teens and adolescents are at an elevated risk.- Head Injury Contact Points for Children Seated on the Rear Rows in Frontal Crashes
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The objective of this study is to delineate head/face injury causation scenarios for rear-seated, restrained children in frontal crashes and create a contact map of the vehicle interior.
2009-2010
- NASS Special Study on Child Occupant Protection
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The goal of this study is to adapt the Partners for Children Passenger Safety (PCPS) data collection instrument to a shorter instrument that can be implemented via phone, web, or via self-administered hard copy, while also developing and evaluating the feasibility of subject selection, contact, and consent procedures.- Child Restraint Systems in Side Impact Crashes: Injury Patterns and Causation (Multiple Year Project)
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The objective of this study is to further understand side impact protection for child restraints through an analysis of the structural interaction between the child restraint system and the vehicle.
2008-2009
- Child Restraint Systems in Side Impact Crashes: Injury Patterns and Causation (Multiple Year Project)
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The objective of this study is to further understand side impact protection for child restraints through an analysis of the structural interaction between the child restraint system and the vehicle.- Effect of Seat and Seat Belt Geometry on Abdominal Injuries in Belt-Restrained Children
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
The primary objective of this study is to identify the quantitative characteristics of seat and seat belt geometry that lead to abdominal injury in seat belt-restrained child occupants.
2005-2006
- Cervical Range of Motion in Young Children
Principal Investigator: Kristy Arbogast, PhD
This study obtained active range of motion measurements on normal, healthy 3 to 10-year-old children. This not previously available data was used to inform enhancements to child dummy design.