The World Health Organization trauma checklist versus Trauma Team Time‐out: A perspective

Relevance of World Health Organization surgical safety checklist to trauma and orthopaedic surgery.

Surgery like civil aviation is a risk-prone occupation. Civil Aviation has reported a death rate of less than 1 in a million exposures. On the other hand, surgery has a reported mortality rate of 100 per million surgeries. The National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) database in England reported 152,017 'incidents' occurred during 4.2 million surgeries in 2008. Trauma and orthopaedic surge...

STANDARDIZATION OF A TRAUMA SYMPTOMS CHECKLIST FOR CHILDREN

 ABSTRACT Background: The aim of this study was to standardize and assign validity and reliability of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSCC-A). Methods: Normative data for the TSCC-A were based on 3042 students participating in a prevalence child abuse study in 19 different locations of Tehran and 140 participants who had been refered to the run-away children centers in Tehran. After ...

Trauma resuscitation – the team approach

This is the second edition of a book first published in 1993, but it has been significantly updated so that, for the target audience, it is comprehensive and contemporary. The editors have brought together a balanced team of doctors and nurses clinically active in the field to provide a comprehensive review of trauma resuscitation. The importance of the team approach is emphasized, with the maj...

A checklist for trauma and emergency anesthesia.

Emotions in trauma team

Background This study shows how emotions are expressed in a trauma team setting and assesses their influence and importance with regard to team performance. The term ”Team emotion” can be interpreted as the emotions that trauma team members do/do not display in a trauma receiving unit. Health care professionals are expected to refrain from showing emotion in the presence of patients and colleag...