Pre-Hospital Care Arrival Notification in Major Trauma Patients: Improving the Emergency Medicine Trauma Team Activation and the Zero Point Trauma Survey
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https://doi.org/10.31674/mjmr.2023.v07i04.005Abstract
In Malaysia, 24 out of 100,000 people die annually due to trauma, making it one of the highest in South East Asia as well as putting trauma as the 5th cause of all-cause of mortality in Malaysia. [S.J MY, 2019)] Therefore, trauma systems are in place to reduce the morbidity and mortality of trauma as well as to improve the community health. Pre hospital trauma care has direct effect on patients’ survival [Guyette, 2021].
Therefore, this article aims to investigate of incorporating Pre hospital Announcement, Revised Trauma Score, Tier 1 and Tier 2 Trauma Alert systems together with ground zero assessment in pre hospital settings by the Pre-Hospital team to improve patients access to care, allowing for timely life-saving intervention which would directly improve patients outcome [Mitra, 2019].The article was done from the attendance at the Emergency Department Hospital Selayang, Damage Control Resuscitation Suites (DCS) and the aforementioned systems were systems were recently established.
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