Injuries

“As we are informed about developments in medicine, we try to follow a balanced lifestyle, with a careful diet and exercise.”

“As we are informed about developments in medicine, we try to follow a balanced lifestyle, with a careful diet and exercise.”

We take care of ourselves as much as we can.

We limit drinking and smoking and anything else that could endanger our health.

But what about the unpredictable? A serious injury, for example, from a car accident or an accident in the house.

Can we avoid it?

And if so, are doctors ready to help us?

There are no warnings for injuries and it is difficult to predict them.

This fact, both in the past and present and in the future, makes the need for early and effective treatment even more urgent.

The numbers are scary:

Deaths from injuries worldwide in 2000 are estimated to have been in excess of five million!

The number of people being injured is clearly higher, if we take into account all the kinds of physical trauma, and the disabilities, which are equally important, due to the sometimes life-long morbidities which they may entail.

The prevention effort:

Successful injury prevention efforts in developed countries have yielded positive results, even if injury remains a leading cause of death in people less than 45 years of age.

In Greece, until today, treatment for injury has been and remains uneven in many emergency departments.

The establishment of organized Injuries Centres is long overdue.

In the long run, the treatment of injuries puts a heavy burden on the public healthcare system.