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The Registrar General’s Statistical Review for the year 1973 (1975) found that some 18000 deaths in England and Wales were attributable to trauma. Between the ages of 15 and 29 years injuries accounted for 48% of all deaths and mortality was also significant in the young and the elderly. Head injuries are the cause of about 35% of all deaths due to trauma and the mortality is increased when there is associated chest injury (Campbell, 1977). The value of improved immediate care services remains unproven (Norman and Moles, 1977; Campbell, 1979), but improvements in ambulance services continue (Snook, 1977). On arrival in hospital about half the deaths occur in the first 24 hours (Hoffman, 1976) and it is in the Accident Centre and ITU that intensive treatment must be instituted.

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  1. Southend Hospital, UK

    R. S. Atkinson M.A., M.B., B.Chir., F.F.A.R.C.S. (Consultant Anaesthetist) & J. J. Hamblin M.B., B.S., F.R.C.P. (Consultant Physician)

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    J. E. C. Wright M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S. (Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon)

  3. The London Chest Hospital, UK

    J. E. C. Wright M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S. (Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon)

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Atkinson, R.S., Hamblin, J.J., Wright, J.E.C. (1981). Trauma. In: Handbook of Intensive Care. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3238-9_12

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