Changing how care is delivered to people who suffer major trauma, such as through falls and road crashes, could improve survival rates by 30 per cent, clinical experts have suggested. Dr Deasy said that when trauma care in the UK was reconfigured in 2012 there was an increase of 30 per cent in the odds of survival. If patients suffering major trauma were treated the way they should be, he said their chances of survival would increase by that much. “Patients with major trauma are not being assessed by trauma teams and senior clinicians on arrival to emergency departments,” Dr Deasy said. He noted that in the 1990s, road trauma accounted for some 60 per cent of major trauma but that this was now down to 18 per cent.

Source: The Irish Times January 31, 2018 08:37 UTC