A 10-year review was conducted at UCLA-Harbor (an urban Level I trauma center) on gunshot wounds. The information they collected is rather interesting: -702 gunshot wounds were treated, with 501 surviving the injury -Of the 501 survivors, only 28 required surgical intervention -Of the 28 that required surgery, 35% required a tracheostomy -The mean age was 28 -The mean hospital stay was four days -The average cost per patient was $101,000.00 Want to read more on this report? Click here: webcentral.uc.edu/surgery/trauma/documents/2012-07-05%20Ballistics%20and%20GSWs%20to%20the%20Face%20-%20Dr.%20Bradly%20Russell.pdf
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 20:39:00 +0000
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