Timeliness in obtaining emergent percutaneous procedures in severely injured patients: How long is too long and should we create quality assurance guidelines? | Zendy

Andrew Smith | Zendy; JeanFrançois Ouellet | Zendy; Daniel J. Niven | Zendy; Andrew W. Kirkpatrick | Zendy; Elijah Dixon | Zendy; Scott D’Amours | Zendy; Chad G. Ball | Zendy

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Timeliness in obtaining emergent percutaneous procedures in severely injured patients: How long is too long and should we create quality assurance guidelines?

Author(s) -

Andrew Smith,

JeanFrançois Ouellet,

Daniel J. Niven,

Andrew W. Kirkpatrick,

Elijah Dixon,

Scott D’Amours,

Chad G. Ball

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.020012

Subject(s) - medicine , quality assurance , percutaneous , medical physics , quality (philosophy) , medline , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , surgery , pathology , philosophy , external quality assessment , epistemology , political science , law

Modern trauma care relies heavily on nonoperative, emergent percutaneous procedures, particularly in patients with splenic, pelvic and hepatic injuries. Unfortunately, specific quality measures (e.g., arrival to angiography times) have not been widely discussed. Our objective was to evaluate the time interval from arrival to initiation of emergent percutaneous procedures in severely injured patients.

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