Announcing the Nineteenth Public Meeting of the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN)

Topics:  Federal Highway Administration

John Maddox
Federal Register
August 2, 2011

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 148 (Tuesday, August 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 46359]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19456]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Announcing the Nineteenth Public Meeting of the Crash Injury 
Research and Engineering Network (CIREN)

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.

ACTION: Meeting announcement.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Nineteenth Public Meeting of members 
of the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network. CIREN is a 
collaborative effort to conduct research on crashes and injuries at six 
Level I Trauma Centers across the United States linked by a computer 
network. The current CIREN model utilizes two types of centers, medical 
and engineering. Medical centers are based at Level I Trauma Centers 
that admit large numbers of people injured in motor vehicle crashes. 
These teams are led by trauma surgeons and emergency physicians and 
also include a crash investigator and project coordinator. Engineering 
centers are based at academic engineering laboratories that have 
experience in motor vehicle crash and human injury research. 
Engineering teams partner with trauma centers to enroll crash victims 
into the CIREN program. Engineering teams are led by mechanical 
engineers, typically trained in the area of impact biomechanics. 
Engineering teams also include trauma/emergency physicians, a crash 
investigator, and a project coordinator. Either type of team typically 
includes additional physicians and/or engineers, epidemiologists, 
nurses, and other researchers. The CIREN process combines prospective 
data collection with professional multidisciplinary analysis of medical 
and engineering evidence to determine injury causation in every crash 
investigation conducted. Researchers can review data and share 
expertise, which may lead to a better understanding of crash injury 
mechanisms and the design of safer vehicles.
    The six centers will give presentations on current research based 
on CIREN data. Topics include side air bag analysis utilizing CIREN 
weighted data; the role of frailty in crash related injuries; 
fatalities and serious injuries in multiple event rollover crashes; 
validation of prehospital trauma triage: mechanism of injury; small 
overlap frontal crashes and injury causation; and brain injury 
analysis. The final agenda will be posted to the CIREN Web site that 
can be accessed by going to the NHTSA homepage http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/, click on Vehicle Safety Research on the right side 
of the top toolbar, then click on Crash Injury Research and Engineering 
Network (CIREN) in the box on the left. The agenda will be posted one 
week prior to the meeting.

DATES AND TIME: The meeting is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on 
Wednesday, September 7, 2011.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at: Department of Transportation 
Headquarters, Oklahoma Room, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 
DC 20590.
    To Register for this Event: It is essential that you pre-register 
to expedite the security process for entry to the meeting facility. 
Please send your name, affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address to 
Rodney.Rudd@dot.gov by Thursday, September 1, 2011, in order to have 
your name added to the pre-registration list. Everyone must have a 
government-issued photo identification to be admitted to the facility.
    For General Information: Rodney Rudd (202) 366-5932, Mark Scarboro 
(202) 366-5078 or Cathy McCullough (202) 366-4734.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA has held CIREN public meetings on a 
regular basis since 2000, including quarterly meetings and annual 
conferences. This is the nineteenth such meeting. Presentations from 
these meetings are available through the NHTSA Web site. NHTSA plans to 
continue holding CIREN meetings on a regular basis to disseminate CIREN 
information to interested parties. Individual CIREN cases collected 
since 1998 may be viewed from the NHTSA/CIREN Web site at the address 
provided above. Should it be necessary to cancel the meeting due to 
inclement weather or to any other emergencies, a decision to cancel 
will be made as soon as possible and posted immediately on CIREN's Web 
site as indicated above. If you do not have access to the Web site, you 
may call or e-mail the contacts listed in this announcement and leave 
your telephone number or e-mail address. You will be contacted only if 
the meeting is postponed or canceled.

    Issued on: July 27, 2011.
John Maddox,
Associate Administrator for Vehicle Safety Research.
[FR Doc. 2011-19456 Filed 8-1-11; 8:45 am]
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