Injured
In trauma surgery and emergency medicine, injured people are defined as those who have suffered a physical wound as a result of an accident or a crime that is severe enough to prevent them from performing normal activities.
Usually one differentiates
- Slightly injured people who can usually be discharged into home care after initial treatment , possibly with the recommendation of a later check-up by the doctor or in the hospital;
- Seriously injured people who need intensive care or take to hospital . These include u. a. internal injury or a broken bone
- critically injured persons (also colloquially seriously injured ) who are generallytreatedby emergency surgery or in the intensive care unit of a hospital.
In military emergency medicine with wounded persons, they are also referred to as wounded in action, abbreviated to WIA 1 to WIA 3 , in the reverse order above, in order to make their need for treatment numerical.
In addition to physically disabled people, there is also the term of
- mentally or emotionally injured.
Such impairment can result from, among other things, severe offense or rejection , stress , an accident or a crime .
The civil law of many states takes mental pain into account (as far as possible) when awarding or calculating compensation for pain and suffering .
