Trauma Teams And The Trauma Team

Patients’ lives will often depend on the decisions a trauma doctor makes. A good trauma doctor needs to believe in the decisions he or she is making. It is important to understand having confidence also means knowing when to consult with other specialists and seek help. One essential trait of any doctor, including trauma surgeons, is to know when you need to collaborate with other medical professionals. As is the case with all medical specialties, a trauma doctor should have compassion and empathy. Being the victim of a car accident, shooting or other type of trauma does not just cause physical injuries. Trauma patients may be afraid, confused and depressed. Depending on the situation, they could also be dealing the loss of others who were involved in the traumatic event. Trauma doctors should be understanding of the emotional aspects of a trauma and refer patients to appropriate services for support. Although it can involve long hours, intense training and be very stressful, being a trauma surgeon can also be extremely rewarding. Consider, the impact a trauma doctor can have. One minute a patient may be living their normal life and the next minute they are in a trauma room with life threatening injuries. A trauma doctor can save someone’s life

Trauma-informed care mainly aims at realizing the impact that trauma brings and identify the potential paths for recovering. It also goes ahead to recognize the symptoms and signs of trauma in the staff, clients, families, and other people who are involved in the system (Withers, 2017). After this, the

Imagine the following scenario: A 43 year old male and his 41 year old wife have just finished celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary at a local restaurant. The husband had a cocktail at the bar while waiting for the table, and then had a couple of glasses of wine with dinner. After dinner, the happy couple drive their vehicle home on a snow covered highway. The car begins to swerve on the ice and enters oncoming traffic and hits a semi cab head-on. After an extended extraction of the driver by paramedics, the driver is found to be unconscious, has multiple head lacerations, chest contusions from the steering wheel, and his left leg is bleeding profusely from a compound femur fracture. The female is conscious, in shock, and states that she is 36 weeks pregnant and has pain in her abdomen. Both victims are flown via helicopter to the nearest level 2 trauma center where 2 teams of emergency room doctors, trauma surgeons, respiratory therapists, x-ray technologists, phlebotomists, chaplains, social workers, and of course, trauma nurses, are waiting to assess the patients and provide life-saving care. This scenario is not the exception in a level 2 trauma care center of the emergency-room, it is the average situation that a trauma nurse will find his or herself in every day. Because of the fast paced situations that require split-second critical decisions, the advanced life support training that is required, and the often unrewarded care, a career in trauma

The ADHS trauma stakeholder workgroup held its December meeting last week and I attended along with Dr. O’Neil. My notes are below.

Trauma is one of the many issues facing children of all ages today. Trauma can be defined as any negative experience that causes a child psychological or emotional stress or damage. Exposure to trauma can hinder development in many areas for children, including brain development, social development, and emotional development. The purpose of this study was to determine what impacts trauma-informed care practices had on students in a second grade classroom. Throughout the study all students had access to a calm corner, which is a place they could go if they were feeling overwhelming emotions. Students participated in daily morning community meetings. Students were also taught direct

Enhanced injury and violence prevention programs are the primary benefit of having a designated Trauma Coordinator. Using the Trauma Registry, the Trauma Coordinator is able to extract information and tailor the injury prevention programs to the community. Injuries are the foremost cause of death in Americans ages 1-44 and a primary cause of disability for people of all ages. 180,000 people will die from injuries every year, and 1 in 10 Americans will suffer a non-fatal injury that results in an Emergency Room Visit ("Healthy People 2020," 2014). There are widespread physical, mental, economic and societal burdens related to the consequences of injuries and violence. Injuries do not just affect the injured party, but also affect the families and

On Saturday, August 22, 2015, at approximately 1220 hours Blue Ridge Parkway Communication Center notified me of a motor vehicle collision with injuries located in Virginia at milepost 180 along the Blue Ridge Parkway. A single motor cycle operator had applied brakes, skidded and laid the motorcycle down in an effort to avoid colliding into a truck. The operator was transported by ambulance to Northern Hospital of Surry County, NC. The operator suffered a broken left humerus, broken left rib, punctured left lung and possible spleen damage. The operator was then transported to the Baptist Trauma Center in Winston Salem, NC.

In previous sections, the report described trauma, trauma-specific services, and trauma symptoms on a broad basis. Additionally, it's important to explicate what a trauma-informed organization (TIO) looks like. At their core, TIOs demonstrate a commitment to having every facet of their organization, including all personnel, executing services through a trauma-informed lens. In TIOs, all staff have a basic knowledge about trauma and its complexities, broadly understand how trauma makes their clients vulnerable, how to provide services that avoid retraumatization, and deliver services that facilitate client participation.1 Trauma-informed organizations typically share five key characteristics: cultural competency, client-centric services and

Much of the literature in this review points to provider training and awareness as a cornerstone to building trauma informed service delivery environments. Several studies found that development of TIC culture was only possible when staff were confident and competent in the knowledge of the prevalence and impact of trauma on patients, and the understanding of their responsibilities in mitigating retraumatization (Elliot et al. 2005; Gatz et al. 2007; National Center for Trauma-Informed Care 2011). However, training in TIC is not routinely incorporated in nursing or medical education, and clinicians vary in their comfort level with addressing trauma exposure in their patients. For example, Zatzick et al. (2005) found that 86% of emergency physicians incorrectly believed injury severity to be a risk factor for PTS symptoms. Other studies have found that many providers report discomfort discussing trauma and its health effects (Shulberg & Burns, 1988; Von Korff et al. 1988), in part because providers didn’t want to “open Pandora’s box” by addressing trauma when not adequately trained to respond to it. In addition to lacking confidence in their ability to address traumatic exposure, many providers may be triggered by own trauma histories (Moses, Huntington, & D’Ambrosio, 2004). More work is needed to identify the degree to which providers’ own trauma exposure may influence their ability to competently provide trauma informed care, and how compassion fatigue or secondary trauma

Early traces of some trauma theories and treatments can be attributed to experts such as Freud, Lidz, Ling, and others. Today, we appreciate the breakdown and specifics of the types of trauma. While generalizations about trauma remain, there are standardizations with which trauma is defined. Trauma can be defined as a unique, unusual, overwhelming, and subjective human experience which threatens safety and/or life, producing fear, terror, and/or helplessness caused by extrinsic agents. Types of trauma are generally labeled by the resulted injury, developmental age of the person, frequency, intensity, and cause of the trauma. The list of the types of trauma include physical, psychological, sexual,

Trauma defies description, but as an analogy it can be useful to think of it as a transfer of energies: like a bullet, it enters the body, angry,

I have recently completed The Building Resilience Surviving Secondary Trauma Training and am now available to teach the training however it is recommended to be trained by two instructors.

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According to American Trauma Society (2017), Level I trauma center is a comprehensive regional resource that is a tertiary care facility central to the trauma system. It is capable of providing total care for every aspect of injury from prevention through rehabilitation. Level I include 24 hour coverage by general surgeons and specialty care physicians. Level II also includes 24 hour coverage but limited on specialty physicians but does include tertiary that are referred in Level I. Level III also offer some of the same levels of care that I and II offers but Level III through V are limited and basically stabilize patients before transferring them to a higher level trauma center. It is vital and very important that the hospital’s trauma level matches the community’s needs. It