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Indications for Geriatric Consultation In Trauma Patients

Trauma 11. Geriatric Trauma

Purpose Identify criteria for early geriatric consultation and geriatric expertise on the multid...

Updated 1 month ago by Abby Josef

Management of Open Fractures

Trauma 7. Orthopedic Trauma

Purpose Open fractures are high energy injuries that have increased risk of infection due to pot...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

Care of Trauma Patient with Accidental Hypothermia Practice Guidelines

Trauma 9. Thermal Injury

Purpose: The purpose of this practice guideline is to provide guidance and standardize the appr...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

Hand/Finger Reimplantation

Trauma 7. Orthopedic Trauma

Patients Requiring Hand/Finger Reimplantation   Decision to transfer/divert a patient needing r...

Updated 1 month ago by Charity Evans

Isolated Hip Fracture Protocol

Trauma 7. Orthopedic Trauma

Section One: Timing and Care Sequence:   1. Presentation to the Emergency Room      a. Assessmen...

Updated 1 month ago by Abby Josef

Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Open Fractures

Trauma 7. Orthopedic Trauma

BACKGROUNDOpen fractures are high energy injuries with an increased risk of infection due to pote...

Updated 1 month ago by Abby Josef

Reimplantation Triage and Transfer Pathway

Trauma 1. Trauma Service Overview

Reimplantation Triage and Transfer Pathway Purpose: As an American College of Surgeons, verified...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

Adult Traumatic Agonal Arrest and Resuscitation

Trauma 2. Initial Management and Resuscitation...

Purpose To outline the procedure for the treatment of the adult traumatic patient with a penetra...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

Pharmaceutical Management of Post-TBI Neuropsychiatric Symptoms

Trauma 3. Neurological Trauma

Definitions 1.       Depression: TBI-associated depression is characterized by prolonged, persis...

Updated 1 month ago by Abby Josef

REBOA Instructions

Trauma 2. Initial Management and Resuscitation...

This page is intended to serve as a quick reference for easy access to the REBOA kit instructions...

Updated 1 month ago by Abby Josef

Trauma Quality Indicators

Trauma 1. Trauma Service Overview

Background: From the time a trauma patient is picked up by EMS on scene through the patient's in...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

Modified Brain Injury Guidelines (mBIG)

Trauma 3. Neurological Trauma

mBIG guidelines apply only to adult trauma patients (18 yrs and older). Pediatric trauma patients...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

e-FAST for Trauma

Trauma 2. Initial Management and Resuscitation...

Purpose To standardize the application of e-FAST in the seriously injured patient, the technique...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

Massive Transfusion for Trauma Protocol

Trauma 2. Initial Management and Resuscitation...

Purpose Hemorrhage is the leading cause of early death following traumatic injury. Protocol-driv...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

Trauma Tertiary Survey

Trauma 1. Trauma Service Overview

A tertiary survey (exam) should be performed on all patients admitted to the trauma service appro...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

Trauma Patient Admission Criteria

Trauma 1. Trauma Service Overview

Trauma patients can be complex with multiple injuries requiring various management strategies, in...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

Trauma Team Activation (TTA) Criteria

Trauma 1. Trauma Service Overview

LEVEL 3 trauma team includes: Trauma attending Emergency medicine (EM) attending and resi...

Updated 1 month ago by Ashley Farrens

Intracranial Hypertension Management Algorithm

Trauma 3. Neurological Trauma

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

Management of Traumatic Brain Injury

Trauma 3. Neurological Trauma

Management of Traumatic Brain Injury  This document provides an overview of considerations and g...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell

Whole Blood Usage in Trauma

Trauma 2. Initial Management and Resuscitation...

Purpose: The implementation of a whole blood program at Nebraska Medicine is designed to optimiz...

Updated 1 month ago by Emily Cantrell