1. Why do we care about Car Crashes?
Unintentional Injury Death Rates among Children 0-19
Years, by Cause, United States, 2000-2005
Data Source: CDC/NCHS, National Vital Statistics System
Transportation-
related
66%
Suffocation
8%
Poisoning
5%
Other Injuries
6%
Fires or Burns
5%
Falls
1%
Drownings
9%

2. Trauma Triage
Right time
Triage

3. What happens after a Car Crash?

4. So how does the addition of AACN help
after a Crash?

5. Automatic Crash Notification (ACN) =
Software that can alert EMS to a crash

6. ADVANCED ACN (AACN) Software
goes one step further…
Direction
of Impact
Speed at
time of
crash
Seatbelt
Use
Injury
Risk

7. AACN in a Car
CRASH!!!!
BLACK BOX
EMS DispatchersAACN uses information
from black box to predict
Injury Risk

8. No AACNs exit for children

9. The Road Ahead