In 1999, the World Health Organization prophetically labeled trauma as the "Disease of the Next Millennium." This issue of the Anesthesiology Clinics could not be any more timely. Given the state of the world today, with its grave social and political conflict and upheaval, its war, and its terrorism, trauma is indeed becoming an epidemic. Additionally, with the universal problem of violent crime, as well as serious accidents, all anesthesiologists...