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CONTENTS
Preface ~ 1
Introduction ~ 5
The Magnitude of the Problem ~ 8
Deaths ~ 8
Disability ~ 9
Costs ~ 9
Medical Load ~ 9
Accident Prevention ~ 10
Emergency First Aid and Medical Care ~ 12
First Aid 1 12
Ambulance Services ~ 13
Communication ~ 16
Emergency Departments ~ 18
Accreditation and Categorization of Emergency
Departments ~ 19
The Advanced First Aid Facility ~ 21
The Limited Emergency Facility ~ 21
The Major Emergency Facility ~ 21
The Emergency Facility Combined with a Trauma
Research Unit ~ 22
Interrelationships between the Emergency Department
and the Intensive Care Unit ~ 23
The Development of Trauma Registries ~ 23
Hospital Trauma Committees ~ 24
Convalescence, Disability, and Rehabilitation ~ 25
Medicolegal Problems ~ 25
Autopsy of the victim ~ 27
Care of Casualties Under Conditions of Natural
Disaster ~ 28
Research in Trauma ~ 30
Current Status of Research Support ~ 3()
Potentials in Fundamental and Clinical Research ~ 31
Specialized Centers for Clinical Research in Shock and
Trauma ~ 32
Specific Recommendations ~ 35
References ~ 38
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