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Lethality of Firearm-Related Injuries in the United States Population Beaman, et al, Annals of Emergency Medicine 35:3 March 2000

This is a nation-wide analysis based on 132k individual patients with gunshot wounds (GSWs).

• Of those who died from their wounds, only 30% made it to the ER for treatment, the other 70% were not alive long enough to be transported.
• Of the total number of patients with GSWs who survived, 43% were treated in the ER and then released, 52% were treated and held at the hospital, and 6% were treated and transferred to an acute care facility.
• Of those shot in an assault, the overall mortality rate was 20%
• Of those shot in the head in an assault, the mortality rate was 40%.
• Of those shot anywhere other than the head in an assault, the mortality rate was 16%.

What these data points mean to me:

a. If you are shot you have an 80% chance to survive.
b. If you are going to die, you are probably going to die on-scene.
c. If you make it to the ER alive there is a good chance (43%) you'll even sleep in your own bed that night.
d. Head shots appear to have more than twice the lethality of non-head shots.

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Anonymous #1 said:

After about a gallon of water and sure-jell.


I got like 10 hours until I go see my po, I'm just gonna keep drinking water for a few more hours then chill out for a little, then take some b vitamins for color and drink some more water and sure-jell before I go in and hope for the best.

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Anonymous #7 said:

Just take the damn test and stop running.  You knew the consequences of your actions, yet you still did them.  You shouldn't be dodging the system even more and wasting hospital space for some body else that might actually really need those nurses/doctors instead of you.

And how do you forget your drug test dates?

You need to grow up

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