Don't Underestimate the dangers of Motorcycles
ecthompsonmd
June 30, 2006
Wearing my trauma surgeon hat, I wrote this op-ed piece which printed in today’s Asheville Citizen-Times Over the last couple of weeks there’s been a lot of discussion about motorcycles and motorcycle safety here in Asheville and nationwide. As a trauma surgeon, I thought that my input could be useful. For some numbers, in the year 2005, Mission Hospital admitted 176 motorcycle crash victims. Approximately one-third of these patients required an ICU stay with the range from a couple of hours to 53 days. Just over 60 percent of the patients wore helmets. The overall length of stay for all motorcycle crash
