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Module 5: Abdominal Injuries

Segment 12: Organ and Tissue Donation & Alcohol and Injury

Websites

How Donation Works
Information about organ donation with links to finding an organ procurement organization in your state. (Health Resources & Services Administration)
Understand Donation
Information on all forms of organ and tissue donation. (donatelife.net)
Organ Donation Statistics
HRSA website with statistics about organ donation and links to related information.  (Health Resources & Services Administration)
Facts + Stats: Alcohol-Impaired Driving
Insurance Information Institute website with facts and statistics about alcohol impaired driving. (Insurance Information Institute)
Managing Alcohol Withdrawal
A summary of alcohol withdrawal management options. You must sign in to view the content, but access is free. (Lippincott NursingCenter)
Visual Wednesdays: Alcohol Withdrawal
An algorithm for the treatment of alcohol withdrawal. (emDocs)
Strategies to Prevent Alcohol-Impaired Driving
What works: Strategies to Prevent Alcohol-Impaired Driving includes recommendations like lowering BAC driving limits, Sobriety checkpoints, and ignition interlocks for people convicted of alcohol-impaired driving. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA))
Impaired Driving Ends Here
Website that advocates for public policy to end drunk and drugged driving. (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)
SBIRT Education
A website with information and education on SBIRT training and implementation. There are links to resources for use in different populations. (SBIRTeducation.com)

Guidelines/Papers

Implications of the SBIRT Initiative for substance abuse policy
Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment: Implications of SAMHSA’s SBIRT initiative for substance abuse policy and practice (Society for the Study of Addiction)
Brain Death Determination Consensus Guidelines
2023 consensus guidelines outlining neurological criteria for pediatric and adult brain death determination. (American Academy of Neurology)
ACS Best Practices Guidelines
American College of Surgeons Best Practices Guidelines: Screening and Intervention for Mental Health Disorders and Substance Use and Misuse in the Acute Trauma Patient (2022) (American College of Surgeons)
Alcohol Withdrawal Management
2020 clinical practice guideline from the American Society of Addiction Medicine for the management of alcohol withdrawal.  (American Society of Addiction Medicine)

Videos

Everybody Hurts Anti-Drunk Driving PSA
Video compilation from the Everybody Hurts Australian anti-drunk driving campaign. Warning: this one's intense! (Transport Accident Commission Victoria)
WHO Mortality Database

A searchable database for global mortality statistics. (World Health Organization)

Injuries and violence

The incidence and impact of intentional and unintentional injuries across the age spectrum. (World Health Organization)

Provincial Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Report Card

Links to a variety of statistics related to the care of patients with traumatic brain injury in the Canadian Provinces. (Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation)