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Pre-notification of arriving trauma patient at trauma centre: A retrospective analysis of the information in 700 consecutive cases
BACKGROUND: Pre-notification of an arriving trauma patient, given by transporting emergency medical unit, is needed in terms of facilitating the admitting emergency department to get ready for the patient before the patient actually arrives. In the present study we retrospectively analyzed the pre-h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2612016/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19019252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-16-15 |
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author | Handolin, Lauri E Jääskeläinen, Juhapetteri |
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description | BACKGROUND: Pre-notification of an arriving trauma patient, given by transporting emergency medical unit, is needed in terms of facilitating the admitting emergency department to get ready for the patient before the patient actually arrives. In the present study we retrospectively analyzed the pre-hospital information provided by 700 consecutive pre-notification mobile phone calls in terms to asses the response of trauma team activation regard to pre-notified information such as vital signs and level of consciousness, mechanism of injury (MOI), and estimated elapsed time (EET) from the time of pre-notification phone call to arrival. RESULTS: The median EET was 15 minutes (range 0 – 80 min, interquartile range 10 – 20 min). In 11% of the cases EET was 5 minutes or shorter. 17% of the patients were intubated and ventilated on scene at the time pre-notification phone call took place. The most commonly notified pre-hospitally diagnosed injuries were thoracic in 75 cases (11%), followed by unstable long bone (tibia, femur, humerus) fracture in 66 cases (9%), and abdominal injuries in 32 cases (5%). Trauma team was activated for 61% of 700 pre-notified patients. MOI without clinical symptoms was the reason for team activation in 75% of the cases. In 25% of the cases there were pre-hospitally observed clinical injuries or abnormalities in vital parameters. CONCLUSION: Pre-notification phone call is of a crucial importance in organizing every day activities at a busy trauma centre, but it should not take place in too much advance. In any case, a pre-notification phone call, even on short notice, gives emergency department personnel some time to prepare for the incoming patient. |
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spelling | pubmed-26120162008-12-30 Pre-notification of arriving trauma patient at trauma centre: A retrospective analysis of the information in 700 consecutive cases Handolin, Lauri E Jääskeläinen, Juhapetteri Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med Original Research BACKGROUND: Pre-notification of an arriving trauma patient, given by transporting emergency medical unit, is needed in terms of facilitating the admitting emergency department to get ready for the patient before the patient actually arrives. In the present study we retrospectively analyzed the pre-hospital information provided by 700 consecutive pre-notification mobile phone calls in terms to asses the response of trauma team activation regard to pre-notified information such as vital signs and level of consciousness, mechanism of injury (MOI), and estimated elapsed time (EET) from the time of pre-notification phone call to arrival. RESULTS: The median EET was 15 minutes (range 0 – 80 min, interquartile range 10 – 20 min). In 11% of the cases EET was 5 minutes or shorter. 17% of the patients were intubated and ventilated on scene at the time pre-notification phone call took place. The most commonly notified pre-hospitally diagnosed injuries were thoracic in 75 cases (11%), followed by unstable long bone (tibia, femur, humerus) fracture in 66 cases (9%), and abdominal injuries in 32 cases (5%). Trauma team was activated for 61% of 700 pre-notified patients. MOI without clinical symptoms was the reason for team activation in 75% of the cases. In 25% of the cases there were pre-hospitally observed clinical injuries or abnormalities in vital parameters. CONCLUSION: Pre-notification phone call is of a crucial importance in organizing every day activities at a busy trauma centre, but it should not take place in too much advance. In any case, a pre-notification phone call, even on short notice, gives emergency department personnel some time to prepare for the incoming patient. BioMed Central 2008-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2612016/ /pubmed/19019252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-16-15 Text en Copyright © 2008 Handolin and Jääskeläinen; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Handolin, Lauri E Jääskeläinen, Juhapetteri Pre-notification of arriving trauma patient at trauma centre: A retrospective analysis of the information in 700 consecutive cases |
title | Pre-notification of arriving trauma patient at trauma centre: A retrospective analysis of the information in 700 consecutive cases |
title_full | Pre-notification of arriving trauma patient at trauma centre: A retrospective analysis of the information in 700 consecutive cases |
title_fullStr | Pre-notification of arriving trauma patient at trauma centre: A retrospective analysis of the information in 700 consecutive cases |
title_full_unstemmed | Pre-notification of arriving trauma patient at trauma centre: A retrospective analysis of the information in 700 consecutive cases |
title_short | Pre-notification of arriving trauma patient at trauma centre: A retrospective analysis of the information in 700 consecutive cases |
title_sort | pre-notification of arriving trauma patient at trauma centre: a retrospective analysis of the information in 700 consecutive cases |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2612016/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19019252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-16-15 |
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