Word: traumas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, 'So-and-so turns me on; I'm going to spend the night with him.' Despite the contract they've made, the boy is inevitably enraged, because he feels it's understood that such things hurt him." When the hurt is great enough to end the affair, the trauma for both may approach that of divorce, or worse. One college student asked his high school girl friend to live in his room with him, and then watched despairingly as she fell in love with his roommate, and, overcome with grief and confusion, tried to commit suicide...
...foundation of the system is a network of 37 hospitals or trauma centers, each furnished with on-the-spot trauma coordinators, who serve as field commanders for emergency operations. Under the system, state police and ambulance drivers, armed with ten-point check lists, evaluate the victim's injuries at the scene and describe them to the coordinators by radio; the coordinators in turn pass the information on to doctors who decide where the patient should be sent for care...
...Trauma coordinators control the entire process, plotting the best routes to hospitals for the ambulance drivers; arranging for air transportation when necessary; and in particularly sensitive cases putting those on the scene of the accident into direct contact via radiophone with an expert in the type of injury sustained by the victim. They also maintain a constant phone check on participating hospitals, and know the location of the nearest vacant bed for any type of patient. "We know where every burn bed is in the state of Illinois," says Roy Leslie, trauma coordinator at Cook County Hospital in Chicago...
...million to get things started. Local support proved equally easy to enlist. The state merely set standards for participation in the program (fulltime emergency-room physician, an intensive-care unit, radio communications and a helicopter landing pad); local communities decided which hospitals would be best suited to be trauma centers. Opposition to the plan from local physicians or ambulance operators quickly disappeared. Says Flashner: "It's the type of program that's difficult to be against...
...system has proved a striking success. Though hard figures are unavailable, some hospital officials place the average national death rate from serious accidents at 13%. Of the 13,000 patients treated by the new trauma network since its establishment, only 260, or 2%, have died...