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The care team. A range of professionals who specialise in different areas of treatment or support are involved in caring for people with major trauma. They may be part of an ambulance team or a member of a trauma team in the hospital and can include paramedics and other ambulance staff, doctors, nurses, people who take X-rays and scans ...
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Who is it for? Healthcare professionals and practitioners who provide care for people with major trauma in pre-hospital and hospital settings. People with major trauma, their families and carers. Guideline development process. How we develop NICE guidelines. Your responsibility.
Feb 17, 2016 · Working with people who have major trauma. If a person has been seriously injured a member of the care team should talk to them about their injuries and explain any tests or treatments as soon as possible. Families or carers can be involved in helping to make decisions, but only if the person agrees.
Jun 14, 2018 · Trauma is the leading cause of death for people under 40 in the UK, and a major cause of debilitating long-term injuries. 1 Major trauma usually refers to a seriously injured patient or a patient with multiple injuries requiring a coordinated multidisciplinary approach to their care.
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A Major Trauma Centre provides specialist services for people who have suffered traumatic injury, for example as a result of car accidents or falls from a great height. People who suffer serious injury need the highest quality specialist care to give them the best chance of survival and recovery.
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Editors’s key points. •. The trauma team must function as a unit with effective leadership and a clear understanding by team members of their roles. •. Repeated briefing and review maintains clinical through the numerous transitions involved in the care of trauma patients. •.
The National Major Trauma Registry (NMTR) is a clinical audit for trauma care across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. It is the largest European trauma registry and currently holds data on more than 1 million injured patients. It began collecting data in 1990 as the Trauma Audit and Research Network data collection (TARN) and […]
