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by J.R.@A&M
Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:43 am
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: increasing (earlier) lethality of gunshots and knife wounds
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increasing (earlier) lethality of gunshots and knife wounds

https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/04/16/prehospi ... 3-69578297

The "gun violence" rhetoric aside, I thought this was interesting. If I understand it correctly, it analyzes fatal shootings and stabbings over time. The finding is that over time, more of the deaths are happening before arriving at a hospital, especially for stabbings.

What explains the quicker (pre-hospitalization) lethality of stabbings in the near term? I assume that the response time of EMS is unchanged, although I don't think the article addressed that.

"After adjusting for factors such as injury severity, hypotension, and other clinically relevant factors, the research team found that patients in the late period had higher odds of prehospital death—four times higher for gunshot wounds and nearly nine times higher for stab wounds—and lower odds of in-hospital deaths. The overall mortality of gunshot and stab wounds remained stagnant, but the location of death (prehospital versus in-hospital) appears to have changed."

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