Accidents or violence can result in penetrating trauma in the adult population. Contaminated penetrating foreign bodies introduced at the time of wounding cause infection, especially high velocity ...

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The observational nature of the study limited causal inference. The findings may not be generalizable to penetrating trauma or settings with different emergency medicine service protocols.

ESO, a leading data services and software provider for EMS, fire departments, hospitals, and state and federal agencies, today released findings from ...