injuries poisoning
Approach to the Trauma Patient
Etiology
Of the myriad ways people are injured, most can be categorized as blunt or penetrating. Blunt injury involves a forceful impact (eg, blow, kick, strike with an object, fall, motor vehicle crash, blast). Penetrating injury involves breach of the skin by an object (eg, knife, broken glass) or projectile (eg, bullet, shrapnel from an explosion). Other injury types include Burns , 