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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

A Trauma team is a group of healthcare workers who attend to seriously ill or injured casualties who arrive at a hospital emergency department. The team is composed of a number of specific roles, with a typical team consisting of:

• Team Leader - Trauma Surgeon, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Emergency Medicine Physician, or Anesthesiologist doctor who takes command
• Additionally: An Emergency Medicine Physician (optional)
• Additionally: Anesthesiologist

• Respiratory Therapist (Canada/USA)
• Three nurses
• Radiographer
• Scribe - a nurse or doctor who deals with administration

Other specialities can be added depending on the nature of the injury, for example a neurological surgeon will attend if there is a serious head injury. All staff should be trained in Advanced Trauma Life Support techniques. Each hospital will have a list of criteria that require the activation of the trauma team, such as a fall of over 6 meters or a fracture of 2 or more bones.

See also

• Traumatology

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• Example call-out protocol

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