trauma activation and stratification

[Moore677 at aol.com]

We rely heavily on our pre-hospital reports, however, the trauma surgeon 
determines who ultimately sees the patient..............not the ED attending

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



In a message dated 10/3/2006 10:27:33 AM Central Standard Time, 
medic541 at hotmail.com writes:
Many of the hospitals in and around the Boston area base the trauma team 
activation on a well communicated pre-hospital report to the ED attending 
physician, via the two way radio.  Usually when we show up at a trauma 
center all of the physicians that need to be there are present.  I.E. a 
multi-trauma patient with signs of neuro compromise will have both of the ED 
attending, the trauma surgeon and the neurologist would be present.
  A good report from the field that communicates the mechanism and the 
patients signs and symptoms, should be a good indicator as to whether or not 
the trauma services should be consulted.  This however, is not the final 
call.  That I believe rests with the in-charge physician.
   A. Caruso NREMT-P

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