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The Role of Mechanism in Trauma
A single systolic blood pressure of less than 105 is associated with, for example, a 12-fold increase in the need for immediate therapeutic intervention. In younger patients without a lot of physiologic perturbance, mechanism really doesn't mean much. Elderly patients can have very trivial mechanisms and a very severe injuries that occur as a result.