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Published on: November 20, 2016
System compliance with out-of-hospital trauma triage criteria
Amado Alejandro Báez1, Peter L Lane, Barbara Sorondo
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. baez.amado@mayo.edu
Background:
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers are the initial link to a trauma care system. Previous studies have demonstrated poor compliance with trauma triage by EMS personnel. We sought to determine the proportion of adult EMS cases within a large state meeting Trauma Triage Criteria (TTC) who are ultimately cared for in trauma centers.
Methods:
Merged EMS and hospital discharge records for 1996 were examined. All adult acute trauma cases were included. Single-system burns and late effects of injury were excluded.
Results:
Nine thousand one hundred seventy-four adult cases had at least one TTC, and 60.1% of these patients were transported to a non-trauma center (NTC) and 74.6% of cases with an Injury Severity Score > 15 and one TTC were taken to trauma centers. Analyzing two large urban counties, 58.2% and 27.0% of all TTC cases were still taken to NTC hospitals.
Conclusion:
A significant proportion of seriously injured patients meeting TTC were transported by EMS personnel to NTCs.
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