Odds Favor Drunk Trauma Victims


	Odds Favor Drunk Trauma Victims

chestnut501

10-2-2009 11:05 PM

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chestnut501 says:

A study in the journal American Surgeon finds that trauma victims who were inebriated at the time of their injury have higher survival rates than their sober counterparts.

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10-3-2009 6:05 PM

katsteevns

I'll drink to that!!!

10-3-2009 11:12 PM

chestnut501

Me too kat, here's to us.

10-4-2009 2:47 PM

katsteevns

You always hear stories of drunk drivers surviving in crashes while their victims perish. Sad.

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the likelihood of survival, even after the researchers took into account the age 
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