The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma will soon release Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient: 2022 Standards — the first major revision of its trauma center resources document in nearly a decade. Much of the new book will be familiar to trauma program leaders, but it also includes several new…
Author: Robert Fojut
The first major revision of Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient in nearly a decade will be released in spring 2022. The 2022 Standards build on previous guidelines from the American College of Surgeons (ACS), and most of the changes are incremental developments. However, the new standards include several new expectations in staffing,…
The rollout timeline for the new trauma center verification standards of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) was announced during the closing session of the 2021 TQIP Annual Conference. Avery Nathens, MD, MPH, PhD, medical director of ACS trauma quality programs, revealed the release date of the new standards book and…
The new trauma center verification standards of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) will likely be released in March 2022, according to Avery Nathens, MD, MPH, PhD, medical director of ACS trauma quality programs. Dr. Nathens announced the expected timeline during the opening session of the 2021 Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) Annual Conference. He…
Severely injured patients have a better chance of survival than ever before — if they make it to a trauma center. However, a significant percentage of patients with difficult-to-control bleeding still die in the field or en route to a hospital. Recently, a group of civilian and military trauma leaders proposed a new strategy for…
The majority of trauma centers in the U.S. have seen an increase in the number of patients treated for violent injury in the last 12 months, according to a new survey from Trauma System News. What are trauma programs doing to respond to the surge? According to the survey, program leaders have focused on increasing…
A smartphone app that curates 911 dispatch data reported serious injury incidents more than 30 minutes before trauma team activation (TTA), according to researchers at a Level I trauma center in New York City. The additional advanced notice provided by the app could give trauma teams more time to prepare for some critically injured patients.…
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma will soon release the first major revision of Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient in nearly seven years. But while the new standards are the biggest news for trauma centers, the ACS is set to roll out several other changes in coming months. These…
Many trauma program managers have a hard time evaluating the productivity of individual trauma registrars. A registrar who abstracts eight complex charts in a week might be just as productive as one who works through 15 uncomplicated cases during the same period. How can you tell which registrars are working efficiently and which are falling…
Injured patients who tested positive for COVID-19 had an odds of death six times higher than uninfected trauma patients, researchers found. COVID-positive trauma patients also had twice the odds of any complication. The study was based on data collected by trauma centers designated by the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation (PTSF). It examined more than 15,000…