Trauma team

Trauma team

A Trauma team is a group of healthcare workers who attend to seriously ill or injured casualties who arrive at a hospital emergency department. The team is composed of a number of specific roles, with a typical team consisting of:Or|date=August 2008

* Team Leader - Trauma Surgeon, Emergency Medicine Physician, or Anesthesiologist
* Additionally: Anesthesiologist or Nurse Anesthetist to maintain the airway
* Respiratory Therapist (Canada/USA)
* Three nurses
* In some hospitals, EMTs or Paramedics are used as technicians for vascular access and lab procedures
* Radiographer
* Scribe - a nurse or doctor who deals with administration

Other specialities can be added depending on the nature of the injury, for example a neurosurgeon will attend if there is a serious head injury. All staff should be trained in Advanced Trauma Life Support techniques. Each hospital will have a list of criteria that require the activation of the trauma team, such as a fall of over 6 meters or a fracture of 2 or more bones.

ee also

* Traumatology

External links

* Example [http://www.swsahs.nsw.gov.au/livtrauma/education/handbook/protocol.asp call-out protocol]


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