Guidelines for essential trauma care
By: World Health Organization, International Society of Surgery/Societe Internationale de Chirurgie, and International Association for the Surgery of Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care.
Contributors: Mock, Charles.; Essential Trauma Care Project (World Health Organization); World Health Organization.; International Society of Surgery.; International Association for the Surgery of Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Wounds and injuries -- Treatment.; Trauma centers -- Administration.; Wounds and Injuries -- therapy.; Trauma Centers -- standards.; Emergency Medical Services -- standards.; Trauma Centers -- organization & administration.; Emergency Medical Services -- organization & administration.; Emergency Treatment -- standards.; Emergency Treatment -- instrumentation.; Traumatology -- instrumentation.
Description: Injury has become a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Organized approaches to its prevention and treatment are needed. These guidelines seek to set achievable standards for trauma treatment services which could realistically be made available to almost every injured person in the world. They then seek to define the resources that would be necessary to assure such care. The authors have developed a series of resource tables for essential trauma care that detail the human and physical resources that should be in place to assure optimal care of the injured patient at the range of health facilities throughout the world, from rural health posts, to small hospitals, to hospitals staffed by specialists, to tertiary care centres. They also take into account the varying resource availability across the spectrum of low- and middle-income countries. Finally, a series of recommendations is made on methods to promote such standards including training, performance improvement, trauma team organization and hospital inspection.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-85).
"Editors: Charles Mock ... [et al.]"--P. ix.
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Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Orientation to the Essential Trauma Care Project; title: Essential trauma services: needs of the injured patient; title: Inputs needed to achieve essential trauma services; title: Guidelines for essential trauma care; title: Methods for promoting essential trauma care services; title: References; title: Detailed list of equipment and services for airway management; title: Composition of typical trauma team; title: Detailed list of individuals and groups involved in Development of Guidlines for essential trauma care.