Trauma

www.aast.org/GeneralInterest/Links.aspx

Traumatic Arrest! Webinar (UK)

Air in the Chest! Webinar (UK)

Each year trauma accounts for 41 million emergency department visits and 2.3 million hospital admissions across the nation. Life Years Lost (2014, most recent available). Trauma injury accounts for 30% of all life years lost in the U.S. Cancer accounts for 16%. Heart disease accounts for 12% Because trauma is a disease affecting all ages of people, the impact on life years lost is equal to the life years lost from cancer, heart disease and HIV combined.

 Economic Burden $671 billion a year, including both health care costs and lost productivity.  Deaths due to injury3 (2014, most recent available) 192,000 Ranking as cause of death #1 for age group 1-46, or 47% of all deaths in this age range #3 as leading cause of death overall, across all age groups Burns (2013, most recent available) 450,000 burn injuries require medical attention annually. 40,000 hospitalizations related to burn injury. 3,400 fire/burn/smoke inhalation deaths per year Falls (2013, most recent available).

 Each year, 2.5 million older people are treated in emergency departments for fall injuries and at least 250,000 older people are hospitalized for hip fractures. Over 700,000 patients a year are hospitalized because of a fall injury, most often because of a head injury or hip fracture.