Trauma Facts
Injury occurs every day and in every state in our nation.
Trauma and injury rates are not declining.
Injury is equal opportunity – it affects all ages, genders, social strata, races. No one is excluded.
Injury is the leading cause of death between the ages of 1 and 44 -- 16,000 deaths in Texas,
160,000 deaths across the nation each year, and 5 million deaths annually, worldwide.
With research, new interventions can improve outcomes in both military and civilian trauma.
Medically, there is no difference whatsoever between military and civilian trauma.
Trauma destroys the health, lives and livelihoods of millions of people.
Trauma is a $400 BILLION problem.
Because trauma is a disease of young people it is the leading cause of life-years lost, exceeding those of cancer and heart disease.
In the US trauma is the leading cause of death from ages 1 to 44, responsible for over 160,000 deaths annually.
Battle injury has caused 3,200 injuries and 4,000 deaths in the current war.
More than 4,500 trauma deaths per year are due to burns.
Trauma mortality rates for the elderly exceed those for any other age group. Globally, injury causes 5 million deaths a year.
By 2020 injury is projected to be the leading cause of death worldwide.
At the National Institutes of Health, there is no single center or institute devoted exclusively to trauma research.
Funding for trauma research lags far behind when compared to funding for other diseases and hazards.
SAVE THE DATE! 14th ANNUAL SAN ANTONIO TRAUMA SYMPOSIUM: August 25-27, 2008
