Twitter Google Share on Facebook trauma Dictionary Thesaurus Legal Financial Encyclopedia Wikipedia Related to trauma:trauma center [traw´mah] (pl.traumas, trau´mata) (Gr.) 1.injury. 2.psychological or emotional damage. adj.,adjtraumat´ic. ...
12 All but 11 level IV/V trauma centers were identifiable in the AHA database; 2 of these were classified as critical access hospitals and 6 as clinics. For each trauma center hospital, the AHA survey extracted (1) type of ownership; (2) participation in a health care system and/or ...
When it comes to bodily injuries,traumais often used to refer to especially serious injury to vital organs (organs, like your heart, that you can live without) or significant wounds. You often hear the wordtraumaused in hospitals, especially when emergency rooms or surgery wards are involved....
American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS), and the American Academy of Otolaryngologists/Head and Neck Surgeons (AAO-HNS) were contacted to determine an estimate of the number of active members within each specialty.ResultsInformation was obtained from 57 (75%) level-1 trauma hospitals. ...
Clinicians at hospitals with limited resources to manage trauma should consult the nearest trauma center as soon as it becomes apparent that a patient has sustained injuries beyond the management capacity of their hospital. Many patients needing to be transferred for trauma evaluation are not sent. ...
Gilberto is a trauma nurse in one of the busiest hospitals in the nation. He is responsible for those not only in his care inside the hospital but is actively involved in the education of those in his community as the trauma outreach educator. Many of Gilberto's patients are from the 10...
[VIEWS], Modified VitalPAC Early Warning Score with Rapid Lactate Level [VIEWS-L]) were designed to predict short or long-term mortality of the hospital admissions or trauma patients at the initial contact.1-7 However, validation studies showed conflicting results especially in rural and pre-...
efigure 9. forest plots describing the odds of mortality for children admitted to hospitals following trauma treated at level i pediatric trauma centers (ptcs) vs level i adult trauma centers (atcs) efigure 10. forest plots describing the odds of mortality for children admitted to hospitals ...
Based on this assumption, we hypothesized patients who are transferred from regional hospitals to Level 1 TCs would have a lower injury severity scores (ISS) and unfavorable payor status (i.e.: uninsured/underinsured) compared to primary (non-transferred) trauma admissions. Methods: Between January...
There are delays in the transport of patients from the smaller hospitals and the direct trauma referral system needs to be strengthened. Non-operative management of abdominal trauma is a very important component of trauma surgical care and is decreasing the operative load on the theatres. 展开 ...