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ReviewCritical care (London, England)2024

Trauma systems in Asian countries: challenges and recommendations.

Dinesh Bagaria, Amila S Ratnayake, Aireen Madrid, Tamara J Worlton

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Review in Critical care (London, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Dinesh BagariaDepartment of Trauma, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Amila S RatnayakeMilitary Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka. amila.rat@gmail.com.
Aireen MadridDepartment of Trauma, Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippines.
Tamara J WorltonUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionTrauma burden is one of the leading causes of young human life and economic loss in low- and middle-income countries. Improved emergency and trauma care systems may save up to 2 million lives in these countries.

methodThis is a comprehensive expert opinion participated by 4 experts analyzing 6 Asian countries compiling the most pressing trauma care issues in Asia as well as goal directed solutions for uplifting of trauma care in these countries.

resultLack of legislation, stable funding under a dedicated lead agency is a major deterrent to development and sustainment of trauma systems in most Asian countries. While advocating trauma, critical care as a specialty is a key event in the system establishment, Trauma specialized training is challenging in low resource settings and can be circumvented by regional cooperation in creating trauma specialized academic centers of excellence. Trauma quality improvement process is integral to the system maturity but acquisition and analysis of quality data through trauma specific registries is the least developed in the Asian setting.

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Developing CountriesWounds and InjuriesAsiaHumansQuality ImprovementRegistriesAsiaEmergency careLMICTrauma system developmentTrauma systems

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PMID38365782
PMCPMC10874018

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