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	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 derived 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 - 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 presentation.

Information related to prevention of fetal injury mortality and morbidity.

	Should pregnant women wear seat belts? (NHTSA fact sheet - 2003, pdf)
	Pregnancy: Protecting Your Unborn Child In A Car (NHTSA fact sheet - circa 1996, pdf, contains some inaccuracies in the risk discussion)
	Wearing  a seat belt during pregnancy  (Minnesota Department of Public Safety - 2001)
	Multiple language brochures on seatbelts and pregnancy (South Australia) English Spanish Arabic Chinese Greek Italian Khmer Vietnamese
	Is it safe to use a car with an airbag during pregnancy (Anna McGrail, Baby Centre)
	UMHS news release on pregnant crash-test dummy  (University of Michigan - 2001)

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Medical and treatment aspects of fetal trauma.

	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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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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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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Discussions of legal aspects pertaining to fetal death.

	Motherhood protection act of 1999 (Lofgren)
	Key Points on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 503, S. 480), Published by the Federal Legislative Office of the National Right to Life Committee.
	The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy - an independent, non-profit legal organization dedicated to ensuring that all women have access to appropriate and freely chosen reproductive health services.
	Legal aspects, prenatal maternal conduct - Punishing Women for their Behavior During Pregnancy: An Approach That Undermines Women's Health and Children's Interests, from The Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, New York: Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, 1996.

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	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)
	Johnson HC, Pring DW, Protect your unborn child Car Seatbelts in pregnancy: the practice and knowledge of pregnant women remain causes for concern (online).

	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.

Other (unclassified) related links

	Injury Control Resource Information Network - A comprehensive directory of injury related Internet Resources
	FET-NET discussion group.
	The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
	The Health On the Net Code of Conduct (HONcode) is an initiative to help unify the quality of medical and health information available on the WWW.
	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.
	News story on Volvo's computer simulation of pregnant women to study effects of crashes - from Automotive News

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	Google™ Web search for "crash pregnant OR pregnancy"
	Google™ News search for "pregnant or pregnancy 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"