Overview
Covers the most common head, chest, abdominal, and orthopedic injuries as well as hyperurgent and multiple priority patients
Discusses activation and criteria, the first five minutes, the transition phase, critical care, acute care, rehabilitation, and follow up
Describes in detail the key components of trauma center administration, management, and patient care
Provides critical information for hospitals looking toward becoming a trauma center
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Trauma Center Operations
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Front Matter
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Performance Improvement
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Critically injured patients
- Performance improvement for trauma centers
- Trauma care
- Traumatology
- Trauma center
- Trauma center administration and management
- Trauma center patient care
- Trauma center verification
- Treatment of multiple priority patients in trauma centers
- Treatment of hyperurgent patients in trauma centers
- Trauma Surgery
About this book
This book is a quick guide to the key components of trauma center administration, management, and patient care. This book provides essential information for hospitals working toward trauma center designation, and for established trauma centers who want to improve their performance. This book provides trauma center personnel with a comprehensive overview of trauma center administrative structure, basic clinical operations, performance improvement and site visit preparation and examines the most common critical injuries seen by trauma centers to demonstrate how a properly functioning center addresses multiple priorities in critically ill patients. This book provides critical information for hospitals looking toward becoming a trauma center and established trauma centers that wants to improve their performance.
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About the author
Director, Trauma Center
Division Chief, Acute Care Surgery
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trauma Centers
Book Subtitle: A Quick Guide
Authors: Jeffrey S. Young
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34607-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34606-5Published: 28 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34607-2Published: 27 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 222
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Emergency Medicine, Traumatic Surgery, Emergency Services