trauma activation and stratification

[Moore, Rick]

And that is the point. Level I's and Level II's have this type of trauma
surgical coverage, but in level III's it is an entirely different story.
They are mostly covered (there are exceptions) by private practice
general surgeons that have more on their plate than trauma call. In my
facility, the trauma medical director is the most likely to tell the ED
doc, "call me back when the CT's are done" or "admit to ICU I'll come by
later after finishing this (elective surgery) that I am performing in 10
minutes.
REM 

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[mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of Jane Harper
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Subject: RE: trauma activation and stratification

I'm aware of at least one level I where the exact opposite is the case
-- the trauma surgeons can't get the ED docs to respond!

Jane Harper, MS, RN, CCNS, ACNP
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> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of JanyaUC at aol.com
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> 
> good luck. we are still having problems with our E.R. docs regarding 
> the trauma surgeon being call in on our full trauma activations.
> 
> 
> In a message dated 10/3/2006 9:23:06 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
> JDuchesne at surgery.umsmed.edu writes:
> 
> definitively agree with K, here in MS we are trying to modify  the 
> activation system where trauma surgery gets involved earlier for  
> every single EMS call from the scene.....but this is going to take a 
> lot  of coordination and time in order to change the mentality around 
> here  among our ED guys............ I
> 
> 
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