Book chapter
Work‐Related Trauma and Injury
Occupational Emergency Medicine
11 Feb 2011
Abstract
Each year in the United States more than 3 million patients with work‐related trauma or injury are treated in hospital emergency departments. It is estimated that a work‐related traumatic event or injury leads to a worker being temporarily or permanently disabled every 10 s; work‐related trauma and injury account for approximately 6,000 deaths annually. These figures have only slowly declined during the past decade despite advances in workplace safety programs and increased awareness of workplace injuries. Nonfatal work‐related injuries vary in severity from self‐limited, easily managed minor strains and sprains to multiorgan system trauma that requires activation of trauma systems, advanced resuscitation, and long‐term hospitalization and rehabilitation. Work‐related traumatic events may result in more than one worker being brought to the emergency department. In such circumstances, it is helpful to keep in mind the principles that govern the emergency care of injured workers.
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Details
- Title
- Work‐Related Trauma and Injury
- Creators
- Mark Saks - Drexel UniversityBrad A Rahaman - Department of Emergency Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Contributors
- Michael I Greenberg (Editor) - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Occupational Emergency Medicine
- Publisher
- Wiley‐Blackwell; Oxford, UK
- Number of pages
- 12
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Emergency Medicine
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84886105893
- Other Identifier
- 991019174599204721