Overview
- Covers the most common head, chest, abdominal, and orthopedic injuries as well as hyperurgent and multiple priority patients
- Discusses activation and criteria, the first five minutes, the transition phase, critical care, acute care, rehabilitation, and follow up
- Describes in detail the key components of trauma center administration, management, and patient care
- Provides critical information for hospitals looking toward becoming a trauma center
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
This book is a quick guide to the key components of trauma center administration, management, and patient care. This book provides essential information for hospitals working toward trauma center designation, and for established trauma centers who want to improve their performance. This book provides trauma center personnel with a comprehensive overview of trauma center administrative structure, basic clinical operations, performance improvement and site visit preparation and examines the most common critical injuries seen by trauma centers to demonstrate how a properly functioning center addresses multiple priorities in critically ill patients. This book provides critical information for hospitals looking toward becoming a trauma center and established trauma centers that wants to improve their performance.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
- Critically injured patients
- Performance improvement for trauma centers
- Trauma care
- Traumatology
- Trauma center
- Trauma center administration and management
- Trauma center patient care
- Trauma center verification
- Treatment of multiple priority patients in trauma centers
- Treatment of hyperurgent patients in trauma centers
- Trauma Surgery
Table of contents (19 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Trauma Center Operations
-
Front Matter
-
-
Performance Improvement
-
Front Matter
-
Reviews
“Surgeons, anesthesiologists, interventional radiologists, hospital administrators, and trauma coordinators of all levels will gain insight from reading this text. Dr Young’s study will prove to be especially valuable for new Level I centers, as well as Level II centers that are aiming to receive Level I designation.” (Victoria Knott and Ozan Akca, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 131 (3), September, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jeffrey Young, MD, MBAProfessor of Surgery
Director, Trauma Center
Division Chief, Acute Care Surgery
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA
Director, Trauma Center
Division Chief, Acute Care Surgery
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trauma Centers
Book Subtitle: A Quick Guide
Authors: Jeffrey S. Young
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34607-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34606-5Published: 28 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34607-2Published: 27 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 222
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Emergency Medicine, Traumatic Surgery, Emergency Services