Trauma
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 […]
Unseen Trauma: Recognizing and Understanding Childbirth-Related PTSD
What comes to mind when you think of events that may be the cause of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Perhaps you think about soldiers in combat, a terror attack, a terrible car accident or sexual assault. But were you also thinking about birth as an event that can trigger PTSD? Childbirth PTSD is different than […]
How I overcame the painful effects of parentification trauma
There are so many interesting and lifesaving things to learn about emotional and mental illnesses. And the best lessons are often presented by those who have been there. I’d like to share my parentification trauma story with you. The saddest part is how my anger, justified or not, had nowhere to go. It turned inward, […]
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 […]
In Pursuit of Freedom – Beating Trauma
I’ve been struggling lately with what it means to be free. While we tend to put too much emphasis on those external steps, I know that freedom can only come from one thing. Freeing ourselves from dissociation is what makes us free. If we see things clearly and understand the truth about the people in […]
Lillibridge Healthcare Services Donates to CNTR on National Doctor’s Day – Coalition for National Trauma Research
To celebrate their healthcare tenants on National Doctor’s Day, medical real estate operating and leasing firm Lillibridge Healthcare Services (LHS) made a generous $20,000 donation to the Coalition for National Trauma Research today. March 30th is Doctors’ Day, an annual observance aimed at appreciating physicians who help save lives everywhere, and each year, the firm […]