An international spotlight has been cast on road traffic injuries – one of the major global health challenges of our time.
A major Clinical Series on Trauma Surgery, led by Australia’s National Trauma Research Institute, updates present knowledge of three broad aspects of acute trauma care: haemorrhagic shock (responsible for most preventable trauma deaths); traumatic brain injury (the cause of most trauma-related deaths in developed trauma systems); and major musculoskeletal injury (the reason for most operations and the cause of most long-term disability).
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