Trauma
Welcome to the trauma section of the critical care medicine orientation webpage. Both the UAH and RAH intensive care sites help treat and recover patients with major trauma. You may assist with care of the patient with major trauma during your ICU rotation. On this page you will find a collection of valuable resources to help inform care of the patient with major trauma. While you will certainly have support from the trauma team and other surgical/medical services, it is important to have an understanding how to care for these patients.
NICE Trauma Guidelines.pdfNICE Guidelines for Major trauma
The following document, produced by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, is an outstanding guide to understand care of the trauma patient.
EAST Guidelines
The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) organization produces high quality guidelines for the management of trauma. Please see the EAST website for a collection of guidelines for the management of major traumatic illness. Guidelines can be found here: https://www.east.org/education/practice-management-guidelines/category/trauma
Traumatic Brain Injury Guidelines.pdfAmerican College of Surgeons: TBI Management
The following document is from ACS: Trauma Quality Improvement Program on best practice in TBI management. We highly recommend this document as a reference to help understand evidence-based targets in TBI management.
