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Trauma claims most of its victims quickly. Half are "dead on arrival" at a hospital, casualties of highway accidents, homicide, and suicide. The most promising remedies are preventive and nonmedical: handgun control, stiffer penalties for drunk driving, laws requiring motorcy- clists to wear helmets.
Another 30 percent of trauma deaths occur between one and two hours after injury. Here, the critical factor is how fast the victim reaches surgery....