In Psychology and Medicine
- Trauma (medicine), an often serious and body-altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb
- Blast injury, a type of physical trauma caused by an explosion
- Blunt trauma, a type of physical trauma caused by impact or other force applied from or with a blunt object
- Penetrating trauma, a type of physical trauma in which the skin or tissues are pierced by an object
- Psychological trauma, an emotional or psychological injury, usually resulting from an extremely stressful or life-threatening situation
- Vicarious traumatization, transformation in the self of a trauma worker or helper that results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients and their reports of traumatic experiences.
- Geriatric trauma, trauma in the elderly
- Pediatric trauma, trauma in children
- Trauma center, a hospital equipped to provide comprehensive emergency medical services to patients suffering traumatic injuries
- Trauma surgery, a surgical specialty
- Trauma team, a group of healthcare workers who attend to seriously ill or injured casualties who arrive at a hospital emergency department
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