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New Trauma Response
See the file below regarding Methodist’s new tiered trauma response
CDC Emergency Preparedness & Response- UPDATED: Gulf Oil Spill 2010 Health Surveillance September 3, 2010
- NEW: CDC Response to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill August 31, 2010
- UPDATED: Gulf Oil Spill 2010 Health Surveillance August 25, 2010
- UPDATED: CDC Responds to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill August 17, 2010
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Do they really expect us to remember all of that? Add that to the two or three minute wait at triage even when you call in for a trauma alert and you bet your sweet bippy I’m going to Wishard every time.
The differentiation between the two levels are just mechanisms of injury. Level I is signs/symptoms of obvious major trauma. Level II is simply a high index of suspicion for major trauma. I would just call in a solid report as usual, and let them make the judgment call on the activation level.