Profiles After Acute Traumatic Injury: The Non-battle Injury Impact on Readiness at a Single Military Treatment Facility.

CONCLUSIONS: Non-battle injuries in the garrison setting are a significant threat to readiness. This analysis of acute traumatic injuries suggests that mechanism of injury was similar to previous reports with PT and falls being most common. Interventions should be targeted at PT and motor vehicle collisions as these were more common in the profile group. This series is also similar to previous reports that extremity injuries are the most common cause of profiles. However, TBIs were more common in our analysis. Further research that encompasses all garrison MTF acute traumatic injuries is needed to define the true impact on readiness and guide development of injury prevention strategies. PMID: 33372671 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research