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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Trauma Surgery
  • Emergency Medicine

Background:

  • Denmark lacks formal training requirements for trauma teams.
  • Investigating current training levels and self-assessed competence of doctors in trauma care is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the point prevalence of training among doctors involved in trauma care.
  • To evaluate the self-perceived competence of these doctors in essential trauma skills.

Main Methods:

  • A structured questionnaire was administered to on-call doctors in trauma-involved departments over two nights.
  • The questionnaire covered training levels and self-evaluated competence in diagnostics and interventions based on ATLS and DSTC curricula.

Main Results:

  • 58% of doctors were specialists, predominantly anaesthesiologists (86%).
  • Self-reported competence was high for damage control resuscitation (95% of anaesthesiologists) and extremity surgery (82% of orthopaedic surgeons).
  • Competence in abdominal damage control surgery was lower (55% of gastrointestinal surgeons), with 20% of respondents having no trauma course attendance, mostly gastrointestinal surgeons.

Conclusions:

  • Trauma reception in Denmark is primarily managed by anaesthesiologist specialists and surgical trainees.
  • While damage control resuscitation skills are perceived as adequate, significant discrepancies exist in surgical damage control procedure competence.