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From: State-by-state estimates of avoidable trauma mortality with early and liberal versus delayed or restricted administration of tranexamic acid

Fig. 1

Flowchart of patients included in the study. CDC’s Underlying Cause of Death data (purple boxes) was used to identify adult deaths from blunt / penetrating trauma. A literature review (see appendix) was used to further estimate that 25% of those trauma deaths were due to bleeding. The National Trauma Data Bank (green boxes) is a smaller data set than the CDC’s but is more detailed and includes vital signs at presentation. It was used to estimate the percent of deaths from blunt or penetrating trauma that presented with hypotension and / or tachycardia

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