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Trauma is still the leading cause of death among people between the ages of 10-40 years and it is also the third most common cause of death for all ages in the industrialized countries. Almost all the patients of traumatic injuries refer to emergency departments and between 15-24 years men are more exposed to trauma than women.
ISSN 2379-4046 http://dx.doi.org/10.17140/EMOJ-2-122 Open Journal Short Traumatic Deaths Communication * Sema Avcı, MD* * *Corresponding author Sema Avcı, MD Department of Emergency Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Research and Training Hospital, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Research and Ankara, Turkey Training Hospital Ankara, Turkey Tel. +90 312 596 2000 Fax: +90 312 318 6690 Nowadays, trauma is a serious health problem and can be identified as an injurious event comp- E-mail: semaakhan@hotmail.com 1 letion from the effect of mechanical, thermal, electrical, chemical or radiation energy.
Volume 2 : Issue 1 Trauma is still the leading cause of death among people between the ages of 10-40 Article Ref. #: 1000EMOJ2122 years and it is also the third most common cause of death for all ages in the industrialized count- 2,3 ries.2,3 Almost all the patients of traumatic injuries refer to emergency departments and between 15-24 years men are more exposed to trauma than women.4 Article History th Received: March 17th, 2016 th Trauma is accepted to be the fore cause of losing years of life worldwide by the World Accepted: April 20 , 2016 th Health Organization in 2020.2 Epidemiological studies about traumatic deaths estimate a prog- Published: April 25 , 2016 ressive increase in traumatic injuries by the year 2030.3 Trauma is also a substantial socio-eco- nomic problem and traumatic injuries cause a significant loss in terms of years of productive Citation 3 life and increased health care costs and disabilities.
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When death term meets the following three criteria it is conceived avoidable: the indi- doi: 10.17140/EMOJ-2-122 vidual survives trauma injuries and its outcomes; maintenance provided did not follow curation guidelines; mistakes in patient administration contributed directly or indirectly to an individu- al’s death.1 Preventable deaths can be used to evaluate quality of care protocols and health care systems and these deaths can be essential demonstration of performance and proficiency of administration through trauma patients.2 Traumatic deaths can be categorized as non-preventable, potentially preventable and preventable. Absolutely preventable death means that mildly anatomical injuries (pathological categorized organ injury due to the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma catego- rization with Abbreviated Injury Severity Score (AIS) ≤3) with alterable live threat (tension pneumo thorax, serious external bleeding, etc.).2 Potentially preventable death means that se- rious anatomical injuries within possibility survivable under excellent conditions and resusci- tation or conscious patients with the facility to act at the scene or patients with signs of life at the scene and lack of anatomical non-survivable injuries.2 Non-preventable death means that anatomical organ or tissue distortion non-survivable although excellent conditions and resusci- tation.2 A systematic evaluation for the administration of trauma patients international gu- idelines such as Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) and Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) have been developed.1 Copyright In the future, main focus should be prevention programs about traumatic deaths. ©2016 Avcı S. This is an open ac- cess article distributed under the REFERENCES Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, 1. Settervall CHC, Domingues CA, Sousa RMC, Nogueira LS. Preventable trauma deat- distribution, and reproduction in hs. Rev Saude Publica. 2012; 46(2). Web site. http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S0 any medium, provided the original 034-89102012000200020&script=sci_arttext&tlng=pt. Accessed March 16, 2016. work is properly cited.
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