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INTRODUCTION TO TRAUMA
MANAGEMENT
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Trauma
4
2004
Trauma
5
One-fifth to one-third of
all deaths may be
preventable
Research Spending
7
$15,000,000
$550,000,000 Cancer
Heart Disease
Trauma
$1,000,000,000
Evacuation Mortality
Conflict Time (hrs) Rate (%)
World War I 18 18.0
Loss of Airway
Brain Stem Laceration
High C-Spine Lesion
Aortic/Heart Rupture
Epidural Hematoma
Subdural Hematoma Why do these
Hemo/Pneumothorax patients die?
Intra-abdominal Bleeding
Pelvic Fractures
Femur Fractures
Multiple Long Bone Fractures
Late (2-4 weeks)
12
Sepsis
Multiple Organ System Failure
The most
appropriate
facility Not
necessarily the
closest one!