Instrumented Child Safety Seat

描述（由申请人提供）：明尼苏达州健康解决方案公司（MHS）提议开发一种先进的仪器儿童安全座椅。机动车事故是美国儿童死亡的主要原因。儿童安全座椅是防止儿童在车祸中死亡和严重伤害的最有效方式，然而，这些至关重要的工具在高达90%的安装中被滥用。提议的仪表儿童安全座椅将测量，记录，并显示正确使用座椅的三个关键方面。建议的仪器儿童安全座椅的有效性，以提高适当的座椅安装率将在第二阶段的人体研究进行评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Minnesota Health Solutions (MHS) proposes to develop an advanced instrumented child safety seat. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for American children. Child safety seats are the most effective way to prevent death and serious injury to children in crashes, and yet these critically important tools are misused in up to 90% of installations. The proposed instrumented child safety seat will measure, record, and display three critical aspects of proper seat use. The efficacy of the proposed instrumented child safety seat to improve proper seat installation rates will be evaluated in a human study during phase II. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The societal benefit of the proposed instrumented child safety seat is that, if successful, it will inexpensively and easily improve the safety of all children riing in automobiles by reducing the prevalence of seat installation errors. The population of interest for this device is virtually all child safety seat installers/users, which includes parents, grandparents, and child care providers.