ArticleEmergency medicine Australasia : EMA2019
The World Health Organization trauma checklist versus Trauma Team Time-out: A perspective.
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- Decision Support Capabilities of Telemedicine in Emergency Prehospital Care: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- What Is the Clinical Evidence Supporting Trauma Team Training (TTT): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Pooled it
- Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention to reduce anastomotic leak following right colectomy (EAGLE): pragmatic, batched stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized trial in 64 countries.The British journal of surgery · 2024Trial
- Reducing blood wastage through introduction of a transfusion team.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Multi-disciplinary, simulation-based, standardised trauma team training within the Victorian State Trauma System.Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA · 2023Article
- Non-technical skills and teamwork in trauma: from the emergency department to the operating room.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- Simulation versus reality: what can interprofessional simulation teach us about team dynamics in the trauma bay?Global surgical education : journal of the Association for Surgical Education · 2022Article
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Abstract
Time-out protocols have reportedly improved team dynamics and patients' safety in various clinical settings - particularly in the operating room. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced a Trauma Care checklist, which outlines steps to follow immediately after the primary and secondary surveys and prior to the team leaving the patient. The WHO Trauma Care checklist's main perceived benefit is the prompting of clinicians to complete trauma admissions as per evidence-based guidelines. The WHO Trauma Care checklist, while likely to be successful in reducing errors of omission related to hospital admission, may be limited in its ability to reduce errors that occur in the initial 30 min of trauma reception - when most of the life-saving decisions are made. To address this limitation a Trauma Team Time-out protocol is proposed for initial trauma resuscitation, targeting the critical first 30 min of hospital reception.
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