Aims, Objectives and Background In order to direct patients specialist Major Trauma Centres (MTCs), triage is performed at the scene of an incident evaluate extent a patient’s injuries. The most severely injured are then transported directly MTC, even if there closer ED. This process known as ‘Trauma Unit Bypass’ (TUB) decision support tools provided for use by ambulance service providers. stud...

a b s t r a c t mortality and morbidity from trauma continues to be a serious, ubiquitous public health problem. our short communication reports on the benefits of a dedicated lower limb trauma coordinator (lltc) to the trauma service of a busy inner-london plastics unit. this is based on a retrospective case-note based audit; performed 19 months prior to the introduction of the lltc and for 16...

OBJECTIVES To audit indications for and practice (in terms of training/qualification) of definitive airway management compared with current UK practices. DESIGN Consecutive observational study. SETTING Tygerberg Academic Hospital Trauma Service, Western Cape. SUBJECTS All trauma patients either arriving intubated or requiring intubation at the Trauma unit during the period 1 - 31 August 2...

OBJECTIVE To audit the performance of a new level I trauma unit and trauma intensive care unit. METHODS Data on patients admitted to the level I trauma unit and trauma intensive care unit at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, from March 2007 to December 2008 were retrieved from the hospital informatics system and an independent database in the trauma unit. RESULTS Four hundred ...

INTRODUCTION The abuse of alcohol and drugs is a major public health problem and intoxication is one of the most important risk factors for violence and other causes of injury. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the prevalence of drug and alcohol use associated with injury in adult trauma patients in an inner city trauma unit in Johannesburg. METHODS A cohort of 105 adult trauma pat...