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Major Trauma – Injuries by Assault

Don't Forget the Bubbles

All hospitals will have different makeups of trauma teams and possibly different levels of activation) Do I need any additional expertise outside of who would typically be in the trauma team? E.g. burns, neurosurgery, interventional radiology. Since 2022, NFS has become a specific crime in its own right, separate from assault.

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

Emergency Medicine Journal

Aims and Objectives Early identification of patients at higher risk of death and hospital admission is an important problem in emergency departments. The mortality risk and need for hospital admission associated with the different presenting complaints in a standardised national data set has not been previously reported. 0.65 , 2.7]

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ED care of refugee populations from sub-Saharan Africa

EMDocs

Based on available hospital resources, the patient is treated for septic shock secondary to pneumonia and an infected wound using broad-spectrum antibiotics and IV crystalloid fluids. Physical injuries and burns among refugees in Lebanon: implications for programs and policies. Viral hemorrhagic fevers and their regions in Africa.