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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fedor, Preston J
• Burns, Brian
• Lauria, Michael
• Richmond, Clare

Titel

Major Trauma Outside a Trauma Center: Prehospital, Emergency Department, and Retrieval Considerations

Ist Teil von

• Emergency medicine clinics of North America, 2018-02, Vol.36 (1), p.203-218

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Care of the critically injured begins well before the patient arrives at a large academic trauma center. It is important to understand the continuum of care from the point of injury in the prehospital environment, through the local hospital and retrieval, until arrival at a trauma center capable of definitive care. This article highlights the important aspects of trauma assessment and management outside of tertiary or quaternary care hospitals. Key elements of each phase of care are reviewed, including management pearls and institutional strategies to facilitate effective and efficient treatment of trauma patients from the point of injury forward.