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The Big Baby Blue Southeast Region 1 st Regional Trauma Care Conference January 9, 2009 Temecula, CA. WELCOME TO. TBI. GCS. SCI. SBP. Skeletal. RR. Internal. TRAUMA TREE-ÁGE CRITERIA PRESENTED BY: CINDI STOLL, RN TRAUMA & AIR MEDICAL SYSTEM MANAGER
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The Big Baby Blue Southeast Region 1st Regional Trauma Care Conference January 9, 2009 Temecula, CA WELCOME TO
TBI GCS SCI SBP Skeletal RR Internal TRAUMA TREE-ÁGE CRITERIA PRESENTED BY: CINDI STOLL, RN TRAUMA & AIR MEDICAL SYSTEM MANAGER Riverside County EMS Physiological Anatomical M e c h a n i s m
Origins • 1793 In battlefield care & transport • 1871 Through the Looking Glass is published • 1896 First recorded Auto v Ped fatality. A 44 y/o mother stepped off the curb and went into history as the first person to be killed by an auto in Britain. The British Coroner warned, “This must never happen again!” • 1913 ACS is founded • 1966-1st trauma unit in Cook County Chicago & the White Paper • 2009-Trauma Systems moving forward
The Promise Humpty Dumpty growled out. `… Why, if ever I did fall off -- which there's no chance of -- but if I did --' Here he pursed up his lips, and looked so solemn and grand that Alice could hardly help laughing. `If I did fall,' he went on, `the King has promised me -- ah, you may turn pale, if you like! You didn't think I was going to say that, did you? The King has promised me -- with his very own mouth -- to -- to --' `To send all his horses and all his men,'Alice interrupted, rather unwisely. • American College of Surgeons-Committee on Trauma, • The Great State of California • each local EMS agency • has promised…
TIMEaka The Golden Hour • Development of triage criteria • Development of regulations • Development of EMS, trauma systems, trauma centers • Today we are here to review the criteria
INTERESTING FACTS Of the Big Baby Blue US Dept of Census web site, 2000-2006
THE FALLTHINGS TO CONSIDER • Are we setting ourselves up? • Differences by design? • Each LEMSA’s population • Each LEMSA’s recreation • Each LEMSA’s resources
AFTER THE FALLOver and under triage • Impact towards sending • Increased Air utilization for long transports • Impact towards receiving • Pt records • EMTLA • Continuation of Care
THE WALLBarriers to Regionalization • Same language, is it needed? • Increase or decrease in volume? • Data consistency? • Registries? • Crossing county lines…(omg!) • Providers out of service time? • Funding? • Repatriation? • QI?
TBI GCS SCI SBP Skeletal RR Internal The End Acknowledgements to • Patrice Shepherd for graphic design • Bruce Barton for discussion points • My husband for his tolerance while using our holiday time to prepare. Physiological Anatomical M e c h a n i s m