Prehospital transportation decisions for patients sustaining major trauma in road traffic crashes in Sweden.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results show that the majority of RTC major trauma patients are transported to a non-TC. This may cause unnecessary morbidity and mortality. These findings can guide the development of improved prehospital treatment guidelines, protocols and decision support systems. PMID: 27586097 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27586097?dopt=Abstract

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - August 31, 2016 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Candefjord S, Buendia R, Caragounis EC, Sjöqvist BA, Fagerlind H Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research