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Indications for Geriatric Consultation In Trauma Patients
Purpose Identify criteria for early geriatric consultation and geriatric expertise on the multid...
Care of Trauma Patient with Accidental Hypothermia Practice Guidelines
Purpose: The purpose of this practice guideline is to provide guidance and standardize the appr...
Management of Open Fractures
Purpose Open fractures are high energy injuries that have increased risk of infection due to pot...
Forensic Examiner Program Nebraska Medicine
Percutaneous Tracheostomy Protocol
Purpose To provide guidance on safe practices to perform percutaneous tracheostomy in the operat...
Thrombolytic Therapy for the Management of Severe Frostbite
Purpose Provide guidance on the administration of thrombolytic therapy (t-PA) for the purpose ...
Initial Management of Burns
Purpose: Provide a brief overview of the classification of burns, initial resuscitation and mana...
Guidelines for the Initial Management of Frostbite
Purpose: Provide guidance on the initial evaluation and management of patients sustaining fros...
Management of Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries (BCVI)
Management of Blunt Extra – Cranial Carotid and Vertebral Artery Injury in Adults (BCVI) PURP...
Whole Blood Usage in Trauma
Purpose: The implementation of a whole blood program at Nebraska Medicine is designed to optimiz...
Early Femoral Arterial Line Placement for Trauma
Purpose Identify patients who would benefit from early femoral arterial access and describe the ...
Orthopedic Trauma Discharge VTE Prophylaxis
Not Indicated: In general, VTE prophylaxis at discharge is not indicated for the following inj...
Pharmaceutical Management of Post-TBI Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
Definitions 1. Depression: TBI-associated depression is characterized by prolonged, persis...
Modified Brain Injury Guidelines (mBIG)
mBIG guidelines apply only to adult trauma patients (18 yrs and older). Pediatric trauma patients...
REBOA Instructions
This page is intended to serve as a quick reference for easy access to the REBOA kit instructions...
Adult Traumatic Agonal Arrest and Resuscitation
Purpose To outline the procedure for the treatment of the adult traumatic patient with a penetra...
Hand/Finger Reimplantation
Patients Requiring Hand/Finger Reimplantation Decision to transfer/divert a patient needing r...
Trauma Tertiary Survey
A tertiary survey (exam) should be performed on all patients admitted to the trauma service appro...
Intracranial Hypertension Management Algorithm
Management of Traumatic Brain Injury
Management of Traumatic Brain Injury This document provides an overview of considerations and g...