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  • Emergency Medicine
  • Trauma Surgery
  • Healthcare Management

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  • Variability in trauma team deployment to emergency departments (EDs) can cause patient treatment delays and strain ED personnel.
  • Patient characteristics like injury mechanism, type, and age influence trauma resource allocation.
  • Understanding these patterns is key to optimizing ED operations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine trauma resource deployment patterns in an ED.
  • To identify patient characteristics associated with different levels of trauma resource deployment.
  • To assess the impact of trauma response on ED workforce and non-trauma patients.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective cohort study of trauma response patients admitted to a community hospital ED.
  • Data collected over a three-year period (July 2019 - July 2022).
  • Analysis of trauma activation levels, patient demographics, injury types, and ED workforce allocation.

Main Results:

  • Trauma resource deployment significantly varied by mechanism of injury, injury type, and patient age.
  • Geriatric fall patients had lower average trauma activation compared to younger groups.
  • An average of 3.35 ED registered nurses (RNs) were allocated per trauma patient, with RNs reallocated from 4.09 non-trauma patients.
  • Over a third of trauma patients were discharged from the ED.

Conclusions:

  • Trauma activation protocols require standardization to ensure efficient resource use.
  • A specific plan for geriatric fall patients is needed to optimize trauma and ED personnel deployment.
  • Current deployment strategies may lead to inefficient allocation of ED resources and impact care for non-trauma patients.