TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Management of the Injured Patient A1 - Hemmila, Mark R. A1 - Wahl, Wendy L. A2 - Doherty, Gerard M. Y1 - 2015 N1 - T2 - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Surgery, 14e AB - As a “disease,” trauma is a major public health problem. In the United States, it is the leading cause of death among people aged 1-45. For persons under age 30, trauma is responsible for more deaths than all other diseases combined. Because trauma adversely affects a young population, it results in the loss of more working years than all other causes of death. Presence of alcohol is a significant contributor to trauma fatalities, and one-third of all traffic deaths are alcohol related. The financial costs of injury are astounding and exceed $400 billion annually. Regrettably, nearly 40% of all trauma deaths could be avoided by injury prevention measures (50% of passenger vehicle occupants killed were unrestrained), alcohol cessation, and by the establishment of regional trauma systems that would expedite the evaluation and treatment of seriously injured patients. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105485492 ER -