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Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events, such as bodily injury, sexual violence, or other threats to the life of the subject or their loved ones; indirect exposure, such as from watching television news, may be extremely distressing and can produce an involuntary and ...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [b] is a mental and behavioral disorder [8] that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.
There are conceptual links between trauma and bereavement since loss of a loved one is inherently traumatic. [34] If a traumatic event was life-threatening, but did not result in a death, then it is more likely that the survivor will experience post-traumatic stress symptoms. If a person dies, and the survivor was close to the person who died ...
On admission to hospital any trauma patient should immediately undergo x-ray diagnosis of their cervical spine, chest, and pelvis, commonly known as a 'trauma series', to ascertain possible life-threatening injuries. (Where available, a CT trauma series for head, neck, thorax, abdomen and pelvis may be the imaging modality of first choice).
A motorcyclist was flown to Shock Trauma. ... Wednesday afternoon was flown to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore with life-threatening injuries ...
Advanced trauma life support (ATLS) is a training program for medical providers in the management of acute trauma cases, developed by the American College of Surgeons. Similar programs exist for immediate care providers such as paramedics.
All of the victims are expected to recover with non-life-threatening injuries," Rivera said. Six of the victims were taken to the Jamaica Hospital Trauma Center with injuries ranging from gunshot ...
The teen is currently in critical condition with life-threatening injuries. The investigation revealed he was walking in a marked crosswalk at 12th Street and Philadelphia Ave.