title: An autopsy study of traumatic deaths; San Diego County, 1979.
abstract: All traumatic deaths in San Diego County were analyzed for the year of 1979. Death certificates, coroner's reports, and autopsy data served as the basis for this review. A total of 177 deaths were studied, of which 94 were associated with CNS injury and 83 were not. Sixteen (20 percent) of the deaths not CNS-associated and four (5 percent) of the CNS-associated deaths were classified as preventable. One hundred seventeen deaths were due to motor vehicle accidents, of which 11 of 35 (31 percent; all not CNS-associated) were deemed preventable. Preventable causes of death included hemorrhage, unrecognized hemopneumothorax, and unrecognized epidural hematoma.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy; D002140:California; D002648:Child; D003644:Death Certificates; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy