Author: Michael McGonigal MD

You put in all that work for the site visit from the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Your trauma program staff practically halted work on everything else for the month prior to the review. You slaved and sweated for the two days the reviewers pored through charts, looked at your hospital and scrutinized documentation. And…

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for trauma have officially been around since the late 1990s. The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) was a pioneer in developing and disseminating these best practices to its members. Many other organizations followed suit, and now most trauma centers have either adopted, copied or developed their own CPGs.…