Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine

The Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine ( AAAM ) is an association of physicians and technicians, whose aim is the promotion of biomechanical research in addition to the increase of traffic safety. In addition to the annual professional conferences is the Abbreviated Injury Scale ( AIS ), a measurement system for the description of individual injuries, his best-known product. Chairman of the association is Mary Pat McKay.

History

The eight motor racing enthusiastic doctors Hal Fenner, Bill Gibson, Jack Knight, Abe Mirkin, Werner Pelz, George Snively, Paul Wallace and Tom Waring formed in 1957, the Medical Advisory Committee ' ( German: medical consulting staff ) of the Sports Car Club of America, a until such time more technically oriented club car racing avid enthusiasts.

Already in the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1957, the group to the American Association for Automotive Medicine ( AAAM ) is renamed to Abe Mirkin and chose their president. The aim of the group was in addition to the reduction in motor racing injuries and the reduction of traffic accident injuries in general. To this end was by the Association, in particular the medical associations of the states, acting on practicing physicians. From 30 members in 1959, the number rose to 178 in 1964 doctors. At this time it became apparent that for the attainment of the objectives, an interdisciplinary approach is needed. Therefore, the full membership was also allows non- physicians, as long as their goals corresponded to those of the AAAM. From 264 members in 1968 their number increased to 1977 to over 500 with the annual meeting of 1978, the culture of ad hoc working groups was in a permanent structure of sections, Human Factors ' ( Human Factors ), vehicles ' and ' environment ', changed.

For a better representation of the international claim their action, the AAAM was called in 1983 to the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.

Scientific work

Annual Scientific Conference

Since its foundation in the AAAM conducts an annual scientific conference. Starting with the third conference the presented work has been published in a conference proceedings. In some years, the conferences were held jointly with other technically similar conferences, the Stapp Car Crash Conference (1961-1963), IRCOBI ( 1994, 1999 and 2003).

Symposia, courses and conferences

With the International Symposium on Occupant Restraint in Toronto, Canada, tried the AAAM 1981 to support the campaign for the seat-belt and a seat belt on the North American continent scientifically. Other symposia on head injury mechanisms, aging drivers and strategies for preventing road traffic injuries followed. The first courses over, Impact Biomechanics ' ( German: Biomechanics of blunt violence) were held in 1984 and repeated several times over the years. On behalf of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC ) judged the AAAM 1993, the second World Conference on, Injury Control ' ( German: injury mitigation ) from. In 2001, the AAAM a conference on, Booster Seats ' of: the research of on restraint system for children who had outgrown the traditional child seat, but not yet fit of their stature in seats with normal seatbelts, should be postponed.

, Traffic Injury and Prevention '

In addition to more focused on club news magazines, here in chronological order: Quarterly, Journal, Bulletin, Traffic Lines and today Inroads, a separate scientific publication was aimed at. After initial experiments with the Journal of Occupational Medicine and the Journal of Trauma, 1988 has been cooperating for several years with the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention. In 1999, the AAAM with Crash Prevention and Injury Control, the first own scientific publication, which was renamed the Traffic Injury and Prevention, 2002.

Abbreviated Injury Scale

According to the company AAAM 1973 took over the driving role in the development of the Abbreviated Injury Scale ( AIS). The edition of 1976 was still jointly by the American Medical Association ( AMA), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE ) and he AAAM published. From the AIS version 1980, the AAAM recorded solely responsible for the further development.