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Does trauma team activation associate with the time to CT scan for those suspected of serious head injuries?

BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) constitutes the leading cause of posttraumatic mortality. Practically, the major interventions required to treat TBI predicate expedited transfer to CT after excluding other immediately life-threatening conditions. At our center, trauma responses variably con...

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Autores principales: Rados, Alma, Tiruta, Corina, Xiao, Zhengwen, Kortbeek, John B, Tourigny, Paul, Ball, Chad G, Kirkpatrick, Andrew W
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24245486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-8-48
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author Rados, Alma
Tiruta, Corina
Xiao, Zhengwen
Kortbeek, John B
Tourigny, Paul
Ball, Chad G
Kirkpatrick, Andrew W
author_facet Rados, Alma
Tiruta, Corina
Xiao, Zhengwen
Kortbeek, John B
Tourigny, Paul
Ball, Chad G
Kirkpatrick, Andrew W
author_sort Rados, Alma
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description BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) constitutes the leading cause of posttraumatic mortality. Practically, the major interventions required to treat TBI predicate expedited transfer to CT after excluding other immediately life-threatening conditions. At our center, trauma responses variably consist of either full trauma activation (FTA) including an attending trauma surgeon or a non-trauma team response (NTTR). We sought to explore whether FTAs expedited the time to CT head (TTCTH). METHODS: Retrospective review of augmented demographics of 88 serious head injuries identified from a Regional Trauma Registry within one year at a level I trauma center. The inclusion criteria consisted of a diagnosis of head injury recorded as intubated or GCS < 13; and CT-head scanning after arriving the emergency department. Data was analyzed using STATA. RESULTS: There were 58 FTAs and 30 NTTRs; 86% of FTAs and 17% of NTTRs were intubated prehospital out of 101 charts reviewed in detail; 13 were excluded due to missing data. Although FTAs were more seriously injured (median ISS 29, MAIS head 19, GCS score at scene 6.0), NTTRs were also severely injured (median ISS 25, MAIS head 21, GCS at scene 10) and older (median 54 vs. 26 years). Median TTCTH was double without dedicated FTA (median 50 vs. 26 minutes, p < 0.001), despite similar justifiable delays (53% NTTR, 52% FTA). Without FTA, most delays (69%) were for emergency intubation. TTCTH after securing the airway was longer for NTTR group (median 38 vs. 26 minutes, p =0.0013). Even with no requirements for ED interventions, TTCTH for FTA was less than half versus NTTR (25 vs. 61 minutes, p =0.0013). Multivariate regression analysis indicated age and FTA with an attending surgeon as significant predictors of TTCTH, although the majority of variability in TTCTH was not explained by these two variables (R² = 0.33). CONCLUSION: Full trauma activations involving attending trauma surgeons were quicker at transferring serious head injury patients to CT. Patients with FTA were younger and more seriously injured. Discerning the reasons for delays to CT should be used to refine protocols aimed at minimizing unnecessary delays and enhancing workforce efficiency and clinical outcome.
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spelling pubmed-41761422014-09-27 Does trauma team activation associate with the time to CT scan for those suspected of serious head injuries? Rados, Alma Tiruta, Corina Xiao, Zhengwen Kortbeek, John B Tourigny, Paul Ball, Chad G Kirkpatrick, Andrew W World J Emerg Surg Research Article BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) constitutes the leading cause of posttraumatic mortality. Practically, the major interventions required to treat TBI predicate expedited transfer to CT after excluding other immediately life-threatening conditions. At our center, trauma responses variably consist of either full trauma activation (FTA) including an attending trauma surgeon or a non-trauma team response (NTTR). We sought to explore whether FTAs expedited the time to CT head (TTCTH). METHODS: Retrospective review of augmented demographics of 88 serious head injuries identified from a Regional Trauma Registry within one year at a level I trauma center. The inclusion criteria consisted of a diagnosis of head injury recorded as intubated or GCS < 13; and CT-head scanning after arriving the emergency department. Data was analyzed using STATA. RESULTS: There were 58 FTAs and 30 NTTRs; 86% of FTAs and 17% of NTTRs were intubated prehospital out of 101 charts reviewed in detail; 13 were excluded due to missing data. Although FTAs were more seriously injured (median ISS 29, MAIS head 19, GCS score at scene 6.0), NTTRs were also severely injured (median ISS 25, MAIS head 21, GCS at scene 10) and older (median 54 vs. 26 years). Median TTCTH was double without dedicated FTA (median 50 vs. 26 minutes, p < 0.001), despite similar justifiable delays (53% NTTR, 52% FTA). Without FTA, most delays (69%) were for emergency intubation. TTCTH after securing the airway was longer for NTTR group (median 38 vs. 26 minutes, p =0.0013). Even with no requirements for ED interventions, TTCTH for FTA was less than half versus NTTR (25 vs. 61 minutes, p =0.0013). Multivariate regression analysis indicated age and FTA with an attending surgeon as significant predictors of TTCTH, although the majority of variability in TTCTH was not explained by these two variables (R² = 0.33). CONCLUSION: Full trauma activations involving attending trauma surgeons were quicker at transferring serious head injury patients to CT. Patients with FTA were younger and more seriously injured. Discerning the reasons for delays to CT should be used to refine protocols aimed at minimizing unnecessary delays and enhancing workforce efficiency and clinical outcome. BioMed Central 2013-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4176142/ /pubmed/24245486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-8-48 Text en Copyright © 2013 Rados et al.; 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.
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Tiruta, Corina
Xiao, Zhengwen
Kortbeek, John B
Tourigny, Paul
Ball, Chad G
Kirkpatrick, Andrew W
Does trauma team activation associate with the time to CT scan for those suspected of serious head injuries?
title Does trauma team activation associate with the time to CT scan for those suspected of serious head injuries?
title_full Does trauma team activation associate with the time to CT scan for those suspected of serious head injuries?
title_fullStr Does trauma team activation associate with the time to CT scan for those suspected of serious head injuries?
title_full_unstemmed Does trauma team activation associate with the time to CT scan for those suspected of serious head injuries?
title_short Does trauma team activation associate with the time to CT scan for those suspected of serious head injuries?
title_sort does trauma team activation associate with the time to ct scan for those suspected of serious head injuries?
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24245486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-8-48
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