AAAM may also refer to the AIM-152 AAAM

AIM-152 AAAM

The AIM-152 AAAM is a long-range air-to-air missile developed by the United States of America. The program went through a protracted development stage but was never adopted by the United States Air Force, due to the ending of the cold war and the reduction in threat of its perceived primary target...

 air-to-air missile.

The Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM), is a non-profit education and research organization founded in 1957 by the Medical Advisory committee to the Sports Car Club of America

Sports Car Club of America

The Sports Car Club of America is a club and sanctioning body supporting road racing, rallying, and autocross in the United States. Formed in 1944, it runs many programs for both amateur and professional racers.-History:...

. It is the first and premier professional multidisciplinary organization

Organization

An organization is a social group which distributes tasks for a collective goal. The word itself is derived from the Greek word organon, itself derived from the better-known word ergon - as we know `organ` - and it means a compartment for a particular job.There are a variety of legal types of...

 dedicated entirely to the prevention and control of injuries from motor vehicle

Motor vehicle

A motor vehicle or road vehicle is a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not operate on rails, such as trains or trolleys. The vehicle propulsion is provided by an engine or motor, usually by an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor, or some combination of the two, such as hybrid...

 crashes.

AAAM is an international association with professionals representing more than 20 countries committed to reducing motor vehicle trauma and improving highway safety around the world. Its strength lies in its membership representing medicine, engineering, biomechanics, law, education, and public policy. This combination of clinical, research and administrative backgrounds forms a unique blend of leaders in traffic injury control and it is these professionals who comprise the AAAM membership.

The AAAM has furthered the development and publishes the Abbreviated Injury Scale

Abbreviated Injury Scale

Abbreviated injury scale is an anatomical-based scoring system to determine the severity of single injuries based on the survivability of the injury. AIS is one of the most common anatomic scales for traumatic injuries...

(AIS), a widely used description system for individual injuries. The Abbreviated Injury Scale is an internationally accepted tool for assessing the letality of injury severity of individual injuries. It contains no information on injury aggregation. The AIS codebook is protected by copyright.

Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine * www.aaam.org