Is routine trauma surgeon presence in the emergency department necessary for all priority one trauma cases?
Objectives: The majority of injured patients transported to hospital ED’s do not require emergency surgery, yet our protocols require a surgeon to be present on their arrival. There is a drive to develop clinical decision rules so as to apply “secondary triage” criteria to trauma patients in the...
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| Language: | en |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15240 |