Open Access<p>Success Of An Expedited Emergency Department Triage Evaluation System For Geriatric Trauma Patients Not Meeting Trauma Activation Criteria</p>
Author(s) -
Forrest B. Fernandez,
Adrian Ong,
Anthony Martin,
C. William Schwab,
Tom Wasser,
Christopher A. Butts,
Amanda McNicholas,
Alison Müller,
Charles Barbera,
Rachael Trupp,
Adam Sigal
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
open access emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1179-1500
DOI - 10.2147/oaem.s212617
Subject(s) - medicine , triage , geriatric trauma , emergency department , trauma center , emergency medicine , demographics , logistic regression , injury severity score , revised trauma score , retrospective cohort study , injury prevention , poison control , nursing , demography , sociology
Geriatric patients are at increased risk of injury following low-energy mechanisms and are less tolerant of injury. Current criteria for trauma team activation (TTA) often miss these injuries. We evaluated a novel triage process for an expedited Emergency Medicine Physician evaluation protocol (T3) for at-risk geriatric sub-populations not meeting trauma team activation (TTA) criteria.