Assessing trauma patients, particularly pediatric patients, involves understanding the mechanism of the trauma, what body systems may be affected by that mechanism and how the traumatic mechanism ...

4 The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) NG39 ‘Major trauma: assessment and initial management’ guideline was published in February 2016.5 The guideline aims to reduce deaths and ...

Data were collected on patient demographics, medical history, medications, timelines, trauma assessments and further investigations, fracture types, occult injuries, geriatric assessments ...

While EMS personnel normally associate hypovolemic shock with trauma and bleeding, there are other potential causes of hypovolemic shock. Severe diarrhea, prolonged vomiting, and endocrine ...

Therefore, understanding of the role of trauma in patients’ lives and gaining knowledge of appropriate interventions may enhance patient-provider communication, adherence to treatment, and ...

It gives you a comprehensive knowledge of trauma assessment and management systems within the acute phase of trauma management. You study the assessment, care and management of service users across ...

The Southwest Michigan Children's Trauma Assessment Center recognizes that exposure to potentially traumatic events can affect child functioning within the cognitive, affective, behavioral, and ...

The team at Southwest Michigan Children’s Trauma Assessment Center (CTAC) at Western Michigan University has provided clinical trauma assessments for children with trauma histories in 67 out of 83 ...

A significant offering from Western Michigan University’s Children’s Trauma Assessment Center in the Unified Clinics is trauma informed training. Not only do staff train whole organizations nationwide ...

“And it’s important to give a trauma assessment because just because there was a traumatic event does not mean everybody is ...

Independent assessment of the VBG ‘false negative’ cases (n=20) suggested an ABG would change circulatory management in two cases. Conclusions In trauma patients VBG and ABG parameters displayed ...

Background: In blunt chest trauma, patient management is challenging because clinical guidelines miss tools for risk assessment. No clinical scale reliably measures the severity of cases and the ...