Improving emergency department trauma care in Fiji: Implementing and assessing the trauma call system.
Lavinesh Kumar RajAnne CreatonGeorgina PhillipsPublished in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2019)
This was a severely injured cohort of patients with a high mortality rate. The rate of missed calls was not assessed in this study. Time to CT scan could be improved with an onsite radiographer. Time to team assembly could be improved with trauma team training and early notification from pre-hospital providers. There is a need to continue to monitor and refine the trauma call process and to extend data capture to measure injury severity and outcomes.
Keyphrases
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