RT Book, Section
A1 Isaacs, Doug
A1 Lai, Pam
A2 Cooney, Derek R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1126793027
T1 Blunt and Penetrating Trauma
T2 Cooney's EMS Medicine
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071775649
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126793027
RD 2024/04/25
AB Trauma  and  injury  account  for  182,  479  deaths  in  2007,  with  approximately  31,224  due  to  penetrating  injuries,  that  is,  firearms,  and  65,474  secondary  to  blunt  mechanisms,  such  as  motor  vehicle  collisions  and  falls.1  These  statistics  do  not  include  the  numerous  morbidities  that  may  also  be  associated  with  these  injuries.  It  is  difficult  to  address  the  world  of  trauma  and  acute  care  medicine  without  discussing  “the  golden  hour;”  and  the  “platinum  ten  minutes”  referring  to  the  fact  that  any  trauma  resuscitation  is  divided  into  either  success  or  failure  within  the  first  hour  of  medical  attention,  and  the  initial  minutes  where  critical  interventions  take  place.  While  numerous  debates  have  raged  since  the  inception  of  this  concept,  the  underlying  idea  of  prompt  and  effective  medical  care  starting  from  the  point  of  patient  contact  in  the  field,  and  therefore  the  importance  of  prehospital  management  of  the  trauma  patient,  is  indisputable.