What is polytrauma rehabilitation?
Polytrauma Rehabilitation Centers (PRCs) provide acute, comprehensive, inpatient rehabilitation. They maintain a full team of dedicated rehabilitation professionals and consultants from other specialties related to polytrauma. The Centers serve as consultants to other facilities in the Polytrauma System of Care.
What are the different departments which deal with polytrauma patients as clinical care providers?
A high-level response to a severely injured patient usually consists of a team with the following professionals: general surgeon, emergency physician, anesthetist, radiologist, laboratory technician, radiology technologist, and critical care nurse.
What does a secondary survey include?
The secondary survey is performed once the patient has been resuscitated and stabilised. It involves a more thorough head-to-toe examination, and the aim is to detect other significant but not immediately life-threatening injuries.
Is ACLS and ATLS the same?
A course that combines advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) training with advanced trauma life support (ATLS) training for senior medical students was evaluated for its ability to integrate concepts of students’ prior clinical experience and to stimulate achievement of provider certification.
Is polytrauma life threatening?
Polytrauma is when a patient has sustained multiple injuries, some of which may cause significant disability and may be life-threatening. Worldwide the most common cause of polytrauma is motor vehicle accidents; other causes include suicide and homicide attempts.
What is polytrauma shock?
Polytrauma, defined as a situation entailing severe blunt trauma with injuries to multiple organ systems, entails a different pathophysiology to the more focused tissue injury and exsanguination usually resulting from critical penetrating or lacerating injuries.
What is hemorrhagic shock in polytrauma?
Hemorrhagic shock was defined as low blood pressure (systolic blood pressure < 90 mm Hg), low urine output (<30 mL/h), and a blood lactate level greater than 2 mmol/L (23).