Trauma score simplified

✍ Scribed by DR Kamens

• Book ID: 104313360
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 298 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(85)80431-5

✦ Synopsis

proved or potentially improved outcome for the patient. The flight physician was found to have made an impOrtant or unique contribution to the care of the patient in 38 of 174 flights (22%) completed during the period of study. Judgment was the most common contribution, cited on 29 flights (17%). Both skill and judgment were contributed on 7 additional flights (4%), and skill alone on only 2 flights (1%). Judgment was most frequently exercised in making diagnoses, initiating critical medical treatments, and determining destination. The cost to this program of providing physicians is approximately $85,000 per year, or 7% of an annual budget of approximately $1.2 million. Flight physicians make a substantial and important contribution tO patient care in HEMS operations, exercising critical judgment with regard to diagnosis, medical treatment, and disposition in 22% of transports. The benefits of this contribution far outweigh the 7% program cost.