The Alberta Trauma Registry is a provincial database of information on severe injuries treated in trauma centers across Alberta. The registry includes only major trauma as defined through a process of injury severity scoring. An Alberta Major Adult Trauma Provincial Summary Report has recently been released and profiles traumatic injuries in the adult population over the past five years.
Men are over represented across all age groups and all causes of injury.
Within the trauma population males continue to outnumber females. The majority of major trauma in both the adult and pediatric population results from blunt force. Review of these recent trauma reports confirms that injury continues to be a major threat to the health and wellbeing of Albertans, including Calgary Region residents. While the data profiles distribution of the problem across the population, more importantly it reflects an enormous amount of pain and suffering for individual Albertans, their families and communities and a major burden on health care resources. Both of these reports highlight the leading injury risk areas of transportation, falls and violence and also the preventable nature of many of these injuries.