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our academic nursing program. Injuries from trauma, including
car and motorcycle crashes, assaults, burns, falls, domestic
violence and child abuse, are those that are the most life
threatening – and the most preventable. Trauma occurs every four
seconds. Six minutes from now, someone in the United States will
die from trauma and another will be permanently disabled. Motor
vehicle crashes account for nearly 75 percent of the traumatic
injuries in San Diego County, and over half of those who die are
not wearing seat belts. And our efforts are paying off. Read
more about current trauma prevention programs. As founding
members of the San Diego Trauma System, and Trauma Research
Education Foundation (TREF), UC San Diego Health System’s
Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Burns, was
instrumental in establishing inj