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Paediatric trauma teams in Australia.

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BACKGROUND:Trauma teams have been associated with improved survival probability of paediatric trauma patients. The present study seeks to estimate the use of trauma teams in Australian paediatric tertiary referral centres and describe their medical composition, leadership and criteria for activation. METHODS:Australian paediatric tertiary referral centres were identified. A structured questionnaire assessing the presence, composition and means of activation of a trauma team was mailed to the 'Director, Emergency Department' of all identified hospitals. Three months later, all hospitals were contacted by telephone to complete and verify data collection. RESULTS:Questionnaires were distributed to eight hospitals. Seventy-five per cent had an established trauma team. Hospitals without a trauma team claimed to have insufficient doctors to form a team and insufficient trauma caseload to justify a team. All trauma teams were potentially activated by prehospital paramedic data (field triage) and required a combination of anatomical, physiological and mechanistic criteria for activation. The two methods of mobilizing a trauma team were by dispatching a common call onto individual pagers (66%) or a specific trauma pager (33%) carried by trauma team members. Fifty per cent of hospitals had a two-tier, stratified trauma team response. All teams consisted of emergency, surgical and intensive care unit registrars. Trauma team leaders were emergency medicine specialists/registrars (33%), surgical registrars (33%) and non-defined (33%). Consultant surgeons were not members of any trauma team. Eighty-three per cent of trauma teams consisted of more junior members after hours. Fifty per cent of hospitals did not have a surgical registrar on site outside of business hours. Eighty-eight per cent of hospitals engaged in some form of trauma audit. CONCLUSIONS:Trauma teams are utilized by most Australian paediatric tertiary referral centres, with fairly uniform medical composition and criteria for activation. Paediatric surgeons presently have limited leadership roles and membership of Australian paediatric trauma teams.

journal_name

ANZ J Surg

journal_title

ANZ journal of surgery

authors

Wong K,Petchell J

doi

10.1111/j.1445-1433.2004.03213.x

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-11-01 00:00:00

pages

992-6

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eissn

1445-1433

issn

1445-2197

pii

ANS3213

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Paediatric trauma teams in Australia.