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Major Trauma – Injuries by Assault

Don't Forget the Bubbles

In the bleeding trauma patient, fluid resuscitation aims to avoid the diamond of death (acidosis, coagulopathy, hypothermia and hypocalcaemia). Since 2022, NFS has become a specific crime in its own right, separate from assault. Non-fatal strangulation: in physical and sexual assault. Don’t Forget the Bubbles, 2021.

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2086 The value of emergency care data set (ECDS) presentation codes for predicting mortality and inpatient admission

Emergency Medicine Journal

Method and Design We conducted an observational retrospective cohort study on patients who visited ED in 2021. Drowsy (11.97%), Hypothermia (13.04%) and Cyanosis (10%) were also high risk categories. 0[0 , 12] HYPOTHERMIA 23 3 11 47.8 0[0 , 32] STATES VICTIM OF SEXUAL ASSAULT 8 0 0 0 0[0 , 32] TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION 7 0 4 57.1

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ED care of refugee populations from sub-Saharan Africa

EMDocs

Signs of malnutrition – which places patients at higher risk for infection – can include cachexia, muscular wasting, sunken eyes, redundant skin folds, edema, brittle skin and hair, bradycardia, hypotension, and hypothermia. 2021-0784 Long B, MacDonald A, Liang SY, et al. Published online July 1, 2021. 2024;77:7-16.