Trauma, Critical Care and Reconstructive Surgery

Post-traumatic stress disorder

PTSD is a psychiatric illness that can occur in a person who experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, sexual abuse or who has been threatened with death and also a serious injury.

This can leads to long-term effects which include flashbacks, insomnia, and anxiety.  Instance some focus points that triggers post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are wars, crimes, fires, accidents, death of a loved one, or abuse of some form. Memories reoccur even though the risk was over.