Ambulance management of patients with penetrating truncal trauma and hypotension in Melbourne, Australia.

Eva RosenbaumShelley CoxKaren SmithMark Christopher Fitzgerald George BraitbergAnthony CarpenterStephen Bernard

Published in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2020)

Penetrating truncal trauma with hypotension is rare in Melbourne, Australia with most patients having the injury caused by stabbing rather than shooting. Compared with outcomes reported in the USA and Europe, the mortality rate is low.

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