National Road Victim Month August 2024

On average, 5 people are killed and around 80 people are seriously injured on the UK’s roads every day. RoadPeace, the national charity for road crash victims, founded National Road Victim Month in 1998 in order to raise awareness of this and to support the victims and/or their families. They also aim to honour the work of the emergency services who respond to road collisions, as well as the staff of emergency departments who try relentlessly to save road traffic victims.

 RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic, including trauma care, paramedic science and bereavement. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS   

• Adversity after the crash : the physical, psychological and social burden of motor vehicle crashes; Craig, Ashley; Guest, Rebecca; 2019 (Nova Science Publishers, Inc).

• PHTLS: prehospital trauma life support; National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (U.S.); American College of Surgeons. Committee on Trauma; 2023 (Jones & Bartlett Learning); 10^th edition.

• Orthopaedic and trauma nursing: an evidence-based approach to musculoskeletal care; Clarke, Sonya; Drozd, Mary; 2023 (John Wiley & Sons); 2^nd edition.

• Trauma care manual; Greaves, Ian; Porter, Keith M; Garner, Jeff; 2022 (CRC Press); 3^rd edition. [E-book also available]

• ABC of major trauma: rescue, resuscitation with imaging, and rehabilitation; Driscoll, P. A; Skinner, David B; Goode, Peter N; 2023 (Wiley Blackwell); 5^th edition. [E-book also available]

• Operative techniques in orthopaedic trauma surgery; Tornetta, Paul, III; Wiesel, Sam W; Albert, Todd J; 2022 (Wolters Kluwer); 3^rd edition. [UHNM e-book also available via Clinical Key]

• Advanced paediatric life support: a practical approach to emergencies; Advanced Life Support Group; Samuels, Martin, editor; Wieteska, Susan; 2017 (BMJ Books); 6^th edition. [Keele e-book also available]

• Fundamentals of paramedic practice: a systems approach; Willis, Sam; Peate, Ian; 2024 (Wiley-Blackwell); 3^rd edition. [Keele e-book also available]

• You are not alone: a new way to grieve; Lloyd, Cariad; 2024 (Bloomsbury Publishing) – [part of our Patient Voices Collection].

• Grief works: stories of life, death and surviving; Samuel, Julia; 2018 (Penguin Life) – [part of our Reading Well Collection].

JOURNALS   

• Journal of emergencies, trauma and shock; INDO-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative; (Medknow Publications) – [Available as an Open Access e-journal from 2008 onwards].

• Trauma surgery & acute care open; American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, issuing body; (BMJ) – [Available as an Open Access e-journal from 2016 onwards].

• BMC emergency medicine; (BioMed Central) – [Available as an Open Access e-journal from 2001 onwards].

• International journal of emergency medicine; (BioMed Central) – [Available as an Open Access e-journal from 2008 onwards].

• Burns & trauma; Chinese Burn Association, issuing body; (Oxford University Press) – [Available as an Open Access e-journal from 2019 onwards].

• Injury (Online); British Trauma Society; Australasian Trauma Society; (Elsevier Science Ltd) – [Available as paper journal from 1994 to 2010; available as a Keele e-journal from 2010 onwards*, and UHNM e-journal 2007 onwards].

*N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT log-ins to view e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Library.
Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

• “Road traffic accident-related thoracic trauma: Epidemiology, injury pattern, outcome, and impact on mortality-A multicenter observational study”; Benhamed, Axel; Ndiaye, Amina; et al; PloS one, 2022-05, Vol.17 (5), p.e0268202-e0268202; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268202 . [Available as Open access]

• “Health literacy and recovery following a non-catastrophic road traffic injury”; Gopinath, Bamini; Jagnoor, Jagnoor; Kifley, BMC public health, 2022-07, Vol.22 (1), p.1-1380, Article 1380. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13707-7. [Available as Open access]

• Trauma Outcomes in Pediatric Nonfatal Road Traffic Accidents; Popa, Ștefan; Bulgaru-Iliescu, Diana; et al; Children (Basel), 2024-04, Vol.11 (4), p.425; DOI: 10.3390/children11040425 . [Available as Open access]

• “Cycling-related trauma admissions to the major trauma centre in the cycling capital of the United Kingdom”; Arshad, Zak ; Majeed, Malik; et al; Injury, 2022-12, Vol.53 (12), p.3970-3977; DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2022.09.016 . [Available as a Keele e-journal and UHNM e-journal]

• “Unusual presentation of road traffic accident”; Rahul Devidas Pawaskar; Sonia Devidas Pawaskar; International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2024-05, Vol.12 (1), p.508-513; DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2024.12.1.0813 . [Available as Open access]

• “Traumatic uterine rupture: A rare complication of vehicle accidents”; Azouz, Ines; Souissi, Basma; et al; Radiology case reports, 2024-05, Vol.19 (5), p.1994-1997; DOI: 10.1016/j.radcr.2024.02.020 . [Available as Open access]

• “Pattern of Ocular Injuries Following Road Traffic Accidents Seen at a Tertiary Eye Hospital”; Ono, Takashi; Iwasaki, Takuya; et al; Curēus (Palo Alto, CA), 2024-04, Vol.16 (4), p.e59126-e59126; DOI: 10.7759/cureus.59126 . [Available as a NHS & Keele e-journal]

• “Road Traffic Accident Traumatic Vehicle Seat Belt Abdominal Wall Hernia”; Manasra, Mahmoud R. ; Farah, Roua E; Abufara, Arein A; et al; Case reports in surgery, 2024-02, Vol.2024, p.1-5. DOI: 10.1155/2024/4408980 . [Available as Open access].

• “Associations of Dimensions of Anger With Distress Following Traumatic Bereavement”; Lenferink, Lonneke I. M; Nickerson, Angela; et al; Psychological trauma, 2024-02, Vol.16 (2), p.176-183. DOI: 10.1037/tra0001275 . [Available as a NHS & Keele e-journal]

N.B. All the above articles are Open Access so are available online to both Keele & NHS users.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

• NHS website:
• Head injury and concussion - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/head-injury-and-concussion/
• Eye injury - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/eye-injuries/
• Bereavement - https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/advice-for-life-situations-and-events/bereavement/

• Charities / Further information:
• Road Peace - https://www.roadpeace.org/
• Brake – The road safety charity - https://www.brake.org.uk/
• Cruse Bereavement Support - https://www.cruse.org.uk/

• Clinical Key – Patient Education Leaflets [Available to UHNM only with OpenAthens log-in]:
• Grieving: Facing Illness, Death and Other Losses - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_AAFP_grieving-facing-illness-death-and-other-losses_en
• Managing Loss, Adult - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_bf44a051-7487-4fee-9fd4-23a0723c61d0
• Managing Loss, Teen - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_47409167-2f9c-4363-b2ef-b62668617fd2
• Managing Trauma, Teen https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_072227bf-1a8f-4a50-8609-615f645d5d25

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