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. 1982 Dec;144(6):722-7.
doi: 10.1016/0002-9610(82)90558-x.

An autopsy study of traumatic deaths; San Diego County, 1979

T S Neuman, M A Bockman, P Moody, J V Dunford, L D Griffith, S L Guber, D A Guss, W G Baxt

An autopsy study of traumatic deaths; San Diego County, 1979

T S Neuman et al. Am J Surg. 1982 Dec.

Abstract

All traumatic deaths in San Diego County were analyzed for the year of 1979. Death certificates, coroner's reports, and autopsy data served as the basis for this review. A total of 177 deaths were studied, of which 94 were associated with CNS injury and 83 were not. Sixteen (20 percent) of the deaths not CNS-associated and four (5 percent) of the CNS-associated deaths were classified as preventable. One hundred seventeen deaths were due to motor vehicle accidents, of which 11 of 35 (31 percent; all not CNS-associated) were deemed preventable. Preventable causes of death included hemorrhage, unrecognized hemopneumothorax, and unrecognized epidural hematoma.

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