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Blood “hand-off” system improves care for rural trauma patients – Trauma System News
Providing timely care to injured patients in Montana is a tremendous challenge. As in many rural areas worldwide, distances are vast and resources are scattered. This creates significant problems for patients who need both rapid transport to a higher level of care and immediate access to blood products. Read about more innovative projects in the […]
How to Build a High-Performance Trauma Registry Team – Trauma System News
Many trauma registry teams struggle with the challenges of ensuring timely chart completion, delivering effective staff education, minimizing staff turnover and maintaining a concurrent trauma registry. Any shortfalls in these areas can reduce the availability of quality trauma data and create compliance issues. This on-demand webinar shows how two leading trauma centers reworked registry organization, […]
3 reasons why geriatric patients respond differently to injury and resuscitation – Trauma System News
The Trauma Nursing column is produced in partnership with the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN®), developer of the Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (TCRN®) certification. Geriatric patients, defined as adults aged 65 and older, can experience significant injury and disability following a traumatic event. In fact, older individuals have an increased risk of mortality […]
3 musculoskeletal injury complications that can be life-threatening – Trauma System News
The Trauma Nursing column is produced in partnership with the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN®), developer of the Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (TCRN®) certification. Approximately 7 out of 8 blunt trauma patients have some type of musculoskeletal injury. While most complications of musculoskeletal trauma are not life-threatening, these injuries can lead to some […]
Do you have to wait for the autopsy before closing a mortality chart? – Trauma System News
For trauma mortalities, a complete autopsy report is essential for fully documenting the patient’s injuries. However, if registrars hold mortality charts open until they receive the autopsy report, the 60-day concurrency target will never be met. This article was featured in the 2024 Trauma Registry & Data Management Special Report Recommendation When abstracting a mortality, […]
Trauma team “goes to the wall” to improve loop closure – Trauma System News
Effective performance improvement (PI) requires an effective system for providing feedback to nursing staff and closing the loop on PI issues. That requires not just effective communication but a culture of accountability and engagement. At Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Taylor, a Level IV trauma center in Taylor, Texas, trauma program leaders and […]
Avoid trauma payment trouble by appropriately managing patient upgrades and downgrades – Trauma System News
The U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently launched a review of Medicare payments for trauma claims. Angie Chisolm, MBA, BSN, RN, CFRN, TCRN One focus of the OIG review is trauma team activation (TTA) payments to hospitals that are not properly designated or verified trauma centers. While this is a genuine concern for the […]
Dallas Morning News Series Sheds Light on the Crisis of Traumatic Injury – Coalition for National Trauma Research
A series of articles to be published in the Dallas Morning News beginning today, November 28, 2023, illuminates the public health crisis that trauma surgeons have long lived and decried: the thousands of Americans dying from uncontrolled bleeding, when their deaths are preventable. Investigative reporter Lauren Caruba spent more than two years interviewing trauma surgeons, […]
Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Peregrine Award for Trauma Innovation – Trauma System News
Peregrine Health Services and Trauma System News are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Peregrine Award for Trauma Innovation — Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and the Montana State Trauma Care Committee. “I am very pleased to congratulate the winners of the 2024 Peregrine Award for Trauma Innovation,” said Mark Feinberg, managing partner […]
Jamin Rankin named 2024 Distinguished TCRN – Trauma System News
The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) has announced that Jamin Rankin, BSN, RN, CEN, CFRN, TCRN, CPEN, CTRN, is the recipient of the 2024 Distinguished TCRN Award. Jamin Rankin, BSN, RN, CEN, CFRN, TCRN, CPEN, CTRN Rankin is trauma program manager at Ochsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center in Monroe, Louisiana. In his […]