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Indications for Geriatric Consultation In Trauma Patients
Purpose Identify criteria for early geriatric consultation and geriatric expertise on the multid...
Management of Open Fractures
Purpose Open fractures are high energy injuries that have increased risk of infection due to pot...
Care of Trauma Patient with Accidental Hypothermia Practice Guidelines
Purpose: The purpose of this practice guideline is to provide guidance and standardize the appr...
Hand/Finger Reimplantation
Patients Requiring Hand/Finger Reimplantation Decision to transfer/divert a patient needing r...
Isolated Hip Fracture Protocol
Section One: Timing and Care Sequence: 1. Presentation to the Emergency Room a. Assessmen...
Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Open Fractures
BACKGROUNDOpen fractures are high energy injuries with an increased risk of infection due to pote...
Reimplantation Triage and Transfer Pathway
Reimplantation Triage and Transfer Pathway Purpose: As an American College of Surgeons, verified...
Adult Traumatic Agonal Arrest and Resuscitation
Purpose To outline the procedure for the treatment of the adult traumatic patient with a penetra...
Pharmaceutical Management of Post-TBI Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
Definitions 1. Depression: TBI-associated depression is characterized by prolonged, persis...
REBOA Instructions
This page is intended to serve as a quick reference for easy access to the REBOA kit instructions...
Trauma Quality Indicators
Background: From the time a trauma patient is picked up by EMS on scene through the patient's in...
Modified Brain Injury Guidelines (mBIG)
mBIG guidelines apply only to adult trauma patients (18 yrs and older). Pediatric trauma patients...
e-FAST for Trauma
Purpose To standardize the application of e-FAST in the seriously injured patient, the technique...
Massive Transfusion for Trauma Protocol
Purpose Hemorrhage is the leading cause of early death following traumatic injury. Protocol-driv...
Trauma Tertiary Survey
A tertiary survey (exam) should be performed on all patients admitted to the trauma service appro...
Trauma Patient Admission Criteria
Trauma patients can be complex with multiple injuries requiring various management strategies, in...
Trauma Team Activation (TTA) Criteria
LEVEL 3 trauma team includes: Trauma attending Emergency medicine (EM) attending and resi...
Intracranial Hypertension Management Algorithm
Management of Traumatic Brain Injury
Management of Traumatic Brain Injury This document provides an overview of considerations and g...
Whole Blood Usage in Trauma
Purpose: The implementation of a whole blood program at Nebraska Medicine is designed to optimiz...