This book is a quick guide to the key components of trauma center administration, management, and patient care. This book provides essential information for hospitals working toward trauma center designation, and for established trauma centers who want to improve their performance. This book provides trauma center personnel with a comprehensive overview of trauma center administrative structure, basic clinical operations, performance improvement and site visit preparation and examines the most common critical injuries seen by trauma centers to demonstrate how a properly functioning center addresses multiple priorities in critically ill patients. This book provides critical information for hospitals looking toward becoming a trauma center and established trauma centers that wants to improve their performance.
1. Introduction
2.Trauma Center Structure3.Trauma Center Leadership
4.Trauma Center Operations
5.Treatment of Injured Patients
6.Fundamentals of Performance Improvement
7. Performance Improvement Processes
8.Guideline Creation and Implementation
9. Benchmarking and Optimization of Care
10.Your American College of Surgeons or State Trauma Center Site Visit
11.Case Studies.
Young, Jeffrey S.
Meredith, J. Wayne
| ISBN | 978-3-030-34606-5 |
|---|---|
| Article number | 9783030346065 |
| Media type | Book |
| Copyright year | 2020 |
| Publisher | Springer, Berlin |
| Length | XXI, 222 pages |
| Illustrations | XXI, 222 p. 1 illus. in color. |
| Language | English |
