Hackensack hospital adding a trauma unit on wheels

[Moore677 at aol.com]

Bill Long (Legacy - Portland) has been met with a lot of criticism in the 
past regarding his mobile surgical transport team.  He takes his resources to the 
outside hospital which has minimal or no resources.  These patients will not 
survive transport to the Level I without rapid and aggressive resuscitation 
and stabilization and potentially operative intervention.  Is it financially 
feasible, well that is another issue?  Does it save lives, it sure does!!  


Dell............


Forrest O. Moore, MD
Division of Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
East Texas Medical Center
1020 E. Idel
Tyler, TX 75703
Cell: (903) 279-2123

In a message dated 12/7/2006 10:14:24 AM Central Standard Time, 
Rgross at harthosp.org writes:
Gotta say that, sarcasm aside, Pret is absolutely correct.  This mobile
doc-in-the-box is counterintuitive.  It also fails to ascribe to the
very basics of trauma care, and that is to bring the patient as quickly
to the place with the most resources, not to bring a few resources to
the place where they will quickly be overwhelmed, overused and thereby
useless!  I bet Frykberg would have a stroke with all of this.

Let me see, now......I am looking at something that is round, has a
hole in the middle, and can be put on a heavy stick with the identical
round thing on the other end of the stick onto which I can put something
and roll along very easily.  Why, I just reinvented the wheel.  Sounds
like what these "medical innovators" want to do.

Just my 3 cents (inflation and all.......)

Take care,
Ron