Traumatology (from Greek "Trauma" meaning injury or wound) is the study of wounds and injuries caused by accidents or violence to a person, and the surgical treatment and repair of the damage. Traumatology is a branch of medicine. It is often considered a subset of emergency medicine and in countries without the specialty of accident and emergency medicine it is most often a subspecialty to orthopedic surgery. Traumatology may also be known as accident surgery. A wound is a physical trauma where the skin is torn, cut or punctured. ... Injury is damage or harm caused to the structure or function of the body caused by an outside agent or force, which may be physical or chemical. ... An accident is something going wrong unexpectedly. ... Violence is a general term to describe actions, usually deliberate, that cause or intend to cause injury to people or animals. ... Therapy (in Greek: θεραπεία) or treatment is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis. ... NLM (National Library of Medicine, contains resources for patients and healthcare professionals) Virtual Hospital (digital health sciences library by the University of Iowa) Online Medical Dictionary Collection of links to free medical resources Wikicities has a wiki about medicine: Medicine Categories: Medicine | Health ... Emergency medicine is a branch of medicine that is practiced in a hospital emergency department, in the field (in a modified form; see EMS), and other locations where initial medical treatment of illness takes place. ...

Wounds and injuries are assessed as being serious or not serious (a process known as triage) upon admission in Casualty, or Accident and Emergency departments (A and E), or indeed emergency rooms (ER) in the US. A wound is usually caused by mechanical force, or sometimes by chemical reactions as in the case of burns. Typical triage tag used for emergency mass casualty decontamination. ...

Factors in the assessment of wounds are:

• the nature of the wound, whether it is a laceration, abrasion, bruise or burn
• the size of the wound in length, width and depth
• the extent of the overall area of tissue damage caused by the impact of a mechanical force, or the reaction to chemical agents in, for example, fires or exposure to caustic substances.

Forensic physicians, as well as pathologists may also be required to examine wounds (traumas) on persons alive or deceased. In medicine, a trauma patient has suffered serious and life-threatening physical injury resulting in secondary complications such as shock, respiratory failure and death. ...

Traumatic stress

A unique form of traumatic stress training was designed by Master Hughes director of the National Meditation center for World Peace. The training incorporate's normal trauma mediation techniques, but is unique in its use of Asian mediation and intervention techniques. The techniques are used to mitigate and introduce recovery to a normal state of being. Master Hughes the designer of the program is well known for his lengthy work with troubled youth.

External links

• WikiMed
• TRAUMA.ORG, a non-profit organisation providing global education, information and communication resources for professionals in trauma and critical care