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甜瓜视频 Expert Discusses Typical Seasonal Spike in Traumatic Injuries

Students are out of school for the summer. Workers are off on vacation. Brian Kendall, M.D., Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (甜瓜视频) assistant professor of Emergency Medicine, said it鈥檚 no coincidence that serious trauma and injury cases usually spike during the season that most of us associate with rest and recreation.

鈥淲e鈥檙e all out playing and having a lot of fun,鈥� Kendall said. 鈥淲e go on vacations; a lot of people are on the roadways driving. It鈥檚 warm enough now to go to places like the pool. We can get out those vehicles, whether it be an ATV or a golf cart or motorcycle, bicycles or scooters. And because of the nature of those activities, inevitably there are going to be injuries. But there are things that we can do to help prevent those injuries from being serious.鈥�

The most frequent trauma cases in the summer are from motorized vehicle or bicycle accidents, near drownings or drownings, and heat-related injuries, Kendall said.

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