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- Title
TRAUMA RECEPTION AND RESUSCITATION.
- Authors
Fitzgerald, Mark C.; Bystrzycki, Adam B.; Farrow, Nathan C.; Cameron, Peter A.; Kossmann, Thomas; Sugrue, Michael E.; Mackenzie, Colin F.
- Abstract
The hospital reception phase of major trauma management requires a great number of expedient decisions. However, despite widely taught programmes advocating a standardized, algorithmic approach to decision-making, there is an ongoing rate of human errors contributing to adverse outcomes. It is now time for a fundamental change in our approach to trauma resuscitation. Point-of-care computer technology linked to real-time decision-making and trauma team coordination may achieve error reduction through standardized decision-making and a corresponding reduction in preventable mortality and morbidity.
- Subjects
RESUSCITATION; ALGORITHMS; DECISION making; HUMAN error; MEDICAL care; DISEASE management
- Publication
ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2006, Vol 76, Issue 8, p725
- ISSN
1445-1433
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1445-2197.2006.03841.x