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Trauma is Risky Business  Deborah Stein SMACC Chicago talk Trauma is Risky Business - delves into the risk patients and physicians undergo when treating or being treated for Trauma.  Stein’s speaks of the Risk Benefit Determination that physicians make daily and how this is used to best answer on going questions such as; can a patient have?, how do we care for this patient? and how do we best make all the these decisions?.  Stein’s suggests a thorough Risk Benefit Determination will include:  # Analysis of best available data  # Use of best available judgement  # Gathering of different opinions  # An understanding that you won’t always make the right decision  # To document the 'crap' out of it!  # And,  to remember you’ll never know what you prevented from not occurring.  Stein’s also focuses on the risk to patients due to missed injuries, stating that 1.3-39% of injuries in trauma are missed (a majority of which present as orthopaedic cases). And, touching on the processes designed to prevent missed injuri