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Trauma Facts

More than 275,000 people die from injuries each year – 1 person every 3 minutes.
(CDC) Injuries are the leading cause of death for people ages 1-46 in the US.
(CDC) Injuries cost more than $4.2 trillion annually in medical care and lost productivity.
(Peterson, et al.) More than 64,000 people died in the US in 2020 due to a TBI-related injury.
(CDC) Injury & Violence Prevention and Control Traumatic Brain Injury Facts National Institutes of Health – National Institute of General Medicine Sciences Trauma Fact Sheet Texas Department of State Health Services Trauma Data SouthEast Texas Regional Advisory Council
(SETRAC) National Institutes of Health – National Institute of General Medicine Science Burn Fact Sheet National Institutes of Health – National Institute of General Medicine Sciences Sepsis Fact Sheet Texas EMS Trauma and Acute Care Foundation
(TETAF) American Trauma Society Disparities in National Institute of Health trauma research funding Coalition for National Trauma Research
(CNTR) American College of Surgeons – Committee on Trauma