What is considered traumatic injury?

Traumatic injuries are the result of a wide variety of blunt, penetrating and burn mechanisms. They include motor vehicle collisions, sports injuries, falls, natural disasters and a multitude of other physical injuries which can occur at home, on the street, or while at work and require immediate care.

What is considered a trauma in medicine?

Medical trauma is emotional and physical responses to pain, injury, serious illness, medical procedures and frightening treatment experiences. There are lots of different experiences related to illness, injury or medical treatment that can be difficult, uncomfortable or frightening.

What is trauma emergency?

Trauma care teams treat patients that have critical injuries threatening life or limbs. These severely injured patients often require multi-disciplinary, comprehensive emergency medical services. Trauma surgeons have advanced training in procedures of a critical and invasive nature.

What are the worst injuries?

Fractured Vertebrae The implications can be life threatening, an extreme injury can even lead to paralysis. Treatment for fractured vertebrae could include wearing a back brace or getting prescribed the right antibiotics that can help soothe the pain in the spine.

What is the most common traumatic injury?

The proportion of severely injured trauma discharges from Level 1 trauma centers was 39.4\% (95\% CI 36.8, 42.1). Falls, followed by motor-vehicle crashes, were the most common causes of all injuries.

What is a Level 3 trauma patient?

A Level III Trauma Center has demonstrated an ability to provide prompt assessment, resuscitation, surgery, intensive care and stabilization of injured patients and emergency operations.

What are critical injuries?

CRITICAL INJURY. Defined as an injury of a serious nature that: (a) places a life in jeopardy. (b) produces unconsciousness. (c) results in substantial loss of blood.