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ArticleInternational journal of critical illness and injury science2014

The 2014 Academic College of Emergency Experts in India's INDO-US Joint Working Group (JWG) White Paper on "Developing Trauma Sciences and Injury Care in India".

Ranabir Pal, Amit Agarwal, Sagar Galwankar, Mamta Swaroop, Stanislaw P Stawicki, Laxminarayan Rajaram, Lorenzo Paladino, Praveen Aggarwal, Sanjeev Bhoi, Sankalp Dwivedi and 6 more

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Article in International journal of critical illness and injury science, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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16 authors.

Ranabir PalDepartment of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
Amit AgarwalDepartment of Neuro Surgery, Narayana Medical College and Hospital, Chinthareddypalem, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Sagar GalwankarDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Winter Haven Hospital, University of Florida, Florida, USA.
Mamta SwaroopDepartment of Trauma Surgery and Critical Care, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.
Stanislaw P StawickiDepartment of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Critical care, and Burns, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Ohio, USA.
Laxminarayan RajaramDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Florida, Florida, USA.
Lorenzo PaladinoDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Suny Downstate Medical Center, Long Island College Hospital, New York, USA.
Praveen AggarwalDepartment of Emergency Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Sanjeev BhoiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Sankalp DwivediDepartment of Surgery, M M Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana, Punjab, India.
Geetha MenonDepartment of Health Research (Ministry of Health and Family welfare), Division of Non-Communicable Diseases, Indian Council Of Medical Research, New Delhi, India.
Mc MisraDirector of The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Op KalraUniversity College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Ajai SinghDepartment of Orthopedics, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Angeline Neetha RadjouDepartment of Surgery, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry, India.
Anuja JoshiDepartment of Medical Administration, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune, India.

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Abstract

It is encouraging to see the much needed shift in the understanding and recognition of the concept of "burden of disease" in the context of traumatic injury. Equally important is understanding that the impact of trauma burden rivals that of nontraumatic morbidities. Subsequently, this paradigm shift reinstates the appeal for timely interventions as the standard for management of traumatic emergencies. Emergency trauma care in India has been disorganized due to inadequate sensitivity toward patients affected by trauma as well as the haphazard, nonuniform acceptance of standardization as the norm. Some of the major hospitals across various regions in the country do have trauma care units, but even those lack protocols to ensure that all trauma cases are handled by those units, largely owing to lack of structured referral system. As a first step to reform the state of trauma care in the country, a detailed overview is needed to gain insight into the prevailing reality. The objectives of this paper are to thus weave a foundation based on the statistical and qualitative burden of trauma in the country; the available infrastructure of trauma care centers equipped to deal with trauma; the need and scope of standardized protocols for intervention; and most importantly, the application of these in shaping educational initiatives in advancing emergency trauma care in the country.

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emergency medicineTraumatrauma burden in Indiatrauma care centers

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