{"id":474,"date":"2013-05-31T18:39:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/?p=474"},"modified":"2013-06-03T14:29:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T14:29:56","slug":"jamaica-hospital-celebrates-national-trauma-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-celebrates-national-trauma-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica Hospital Celebrates National Trauma Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-celebrates-national-trauma-awareness-month\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/?attachment_id=524\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-524\" title=\"TraumaDay-210X150\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TraumaDay-210X150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u201cIf You\u2019re Distracted, We\u2019re Impacted\u201d<\/strong><\/em> was this year\u2019s theme for National Trauma Awareness Month and to help spread the message about the seriousness of distractions, Jamaica Hospital\u2019s Trauma Division recently set up a distracted driving community education display in the hospital lobby.<\/p>\n<p>On May 23, members of Jamaica Hospital\u2019s trauma team distributed literature to hospital<br \/>\nemployees and visitors to help educate them on the dangers of distracted driving and how<br \/>\n\u00a0to stay safe.\u201cThere are many dangers while driving,\u201d said Mark Dekki, MPA, Community Educator, Trauma Services at Jamaica Hospital. \u201cNot only does a distracted driver jeopardize their own life, but the lives of those in the car with them, as well as the lives of other drivers who are sharing the road and the lives of pedestrians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Distracted driving is characterized as any activity that could divert a person\u2019s attention away from the primary task of driving. These actions can include eating, applying make-up, playing loud music, talking to passengers, and texting while driving, which over the last few years has become a cause of major concern.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 16% of fatal crashes and 20% of injury crashes in 2009 involved reports of distracted driving. In general, distracted driving contributes to up to 8,000 crashes every single day.\u00a0 Additionally, at any given moment during the daylight hours, over 800,000 vehicles are being driven by someone using a handheld cell phone. Drivers who use hand-held devices are four times as likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDistracted driving is one of the leading causes of death in Queens,\u201d explained Dekki. \u201cIt is our greatest hope that this informational event gave people a better understanding of the dangers of being a distracted driver and provided enough of an impact to encourage a change in their behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a Level 1 Trauma Center, Jamaica Hospital treated 717 trauma patients in its emergency department in 2012, of which 82 were pedestrians struck and 108 were motor vehicle traumas.<\/p>\n<p>The National Trauma Institute reports that each year, trauma accounts for 42 million emergency department visits and two million hospital admissions across the nation. Furthermore, trauma injury accounts for 30% of all life years lost in U.S., more than cancer, heart disease, and HIV. In fact, the impact on life years lost is equal to the life years lost from cancer, heart disease and HIV combined.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid becoming a trauma statistic, Dekki offers the following to drivers: \u201cstaying safe on the road is simple: turn off all electronic devices, apply all make-up before you get in the car, and eat meals and snacks before you get behind the wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share\u201cIf You\u2019re Distracted, We\u2019re Impacted\u201d was this year\u2019s theme for National Trauma Awareness Month and to help spread the message about the seriousness of distractions, Jamaica Hospital\u2019s Trauma Division recently set up a distracted driving community education display in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-celebrates-national-trauma-awareness-month\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jhmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}