Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care University of Pennsylvania Health System Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Disclosure(s):
Zaffer Qasim, MD FRCEM: No financial relationships to disclose
Despite years of innovation in trauma care, a significant portion of patients (especially those suffering torso hemorrhage) suffer potentially preventable prehospital death. Our trauma systems are currently designed to deliver shocked trauma patients to the hospital beyond the time of salvage. This talk reviews the current problem, and potential solutions to implement change by logistically bringing advanced interventions closer to the point of injury
Learning Objectives:
understand the current limitations of existing trauma systems in relation to potentially preventable mortality from trauma hemorrhage
identify strategies of resuscitation that can be brought closer to point of injury
review systems-level considerations in operationalizing changes in their prehospital trauma response
