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Major Trauma – Injuries by Assault

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How common do you think domestic violence is in adolescent relationships, and is this injury mechanism significant? Since 2022, NFS has become a specific crime in its own right, separate from assault. Non-fatal strangulation: in physical and sexual assault. Safe Young Lives: Young People and Domestic Abuse.

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ED care of refugee populations from sub-Saharan Africa

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These patients suffer from untreated physical injuries, including gunshot wounds, shrapnel, accidents, envenomations, sequelae of physical or sexual assault, and heat exhaustion/heat stroke. Viral hemorrhagic fevers and their regions in Africa. 87 The majority of the injuries seen in the ED are associated with violent conflicts.