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In the late 1980s, high-powered weaponry and multiple trajectories became common causes of injury in urban American trauma centres. Definitive injury repair often took many hours. Although surgery was technically successful, these patients often died of a lethal triad of hypothermia, acidosis and coagulopathy.
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