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Chapter 1 - Trauma Epidemiology, Mechanisms of Injury, and Prehospital Care

from Section 1 - Core Principles in Trauma Anesthesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2017

Albert J. Varon
Affiliation:
University of Miami
Charles E. Smith
Affiliation:
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Injury Prevention and Control. Available at: www.cdc.gov/injury/overview/data.html. Accessed September 8, 2016.Google Scholar
Cotton, BA, Jerome, R, Collier, BR, et al. Guidelines for prehospital fluid resuscitation in the injured patient. J Trauma 2009;67:389402.Google Scholar
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MacKenzie, EJ, Fowler, CJ. Epidemiology. In: Feliciano, DV, Mattox, KL, Moore, EE, eds. Trauma, 6th edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2008.Google Scholar
McNamara, ED, Johe, DH, Endly, DA, eds. Outdoor Emergency Care, 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson; 2011.Google Scholar
National Institutes of Health. Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories (RCDC). Available at: http://report.nih.gov/rcdc/categories/. Accessed September 8, 2016.Google Scholar
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) United States Department of Transportation. Available at: www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx. Accessed September 8, 2016.Google Scholar
Salomone, JP, Salomone, JA. Prehospital care. In: Feliciano, DV, Mattox, KL, Moore, EE, eds. Trauma, 6th edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2008.Google Scholar
World Health Organization. Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability. Available at: www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention. Accessed September 8, 2016.Google Scholar
Yee, DA, Devitt, JH. Mechanisms of injury: Causes of trauma. Anesthesiol Clin North Am 1999;17:116.Google Scholar

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