Longer Prehospital Time Decreases Reliability of Vital Signs in the Field: A Dual Center Study | Zendy

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Longer Prehospital Time Decreases Reliability of Vital Signs in the Field: A Dual Center Study

Author(s) -

Morgan Schellenberg,

Subarna Biswas,

James M. Bardes,

Marc D. Trust,

Daniel Grabo,

Alison Wilson,

Kenji Inaba

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

the american surgeon

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 1555-9823

pISSN - 0003-1348

DOI - 10.1177/0003134820956941

Subject(s) - vital signs , medicine , emergency department , glasgow coma scale , triage , emergency medicine , heart rate , blood pressure , trauma center , emergency medical services , anesthesia , retrospective cohort study , psychiatry

Field vital signs are integral in the American College of Surgeons (ASA) Committee on Trauma (COT) triage criteria for trauma team activation (TTA). Reliability of field vital signs in predicting first emergency department (ED) vital signs, however, may depend upon prehospital time. The study objective was to define the effect of prehospital time on correlation between field and first ED vital signs.

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