Question

Trauma is a major healthcare and economic concern because of the loss of life, the societal burden in terms of lost productivity, increased disability of persons, as well as the consumption of healthcare resources. MVCs and homicide are the leading cause of death for individuals 15-24 years of age. A second peak in trauma related incidence occurs at the age of 35-54 and is related to poisonings from prescriptions and/or illegal drugs are the leading cause of unintentional death followed by MVCs for this age group. The third peak is for individuals 65 years related to falls and MVCs.

Individuals with traumatic injury need a lot of support from many individuals.

• Why is it important to have security officers as part of the trauma team?
• Why is it important to participate in debriefings after significant trauma events or disasters?

Answer 1

trauma team is a group of individuals from different discipline from various specialties like emergency medicine ,intensive care,surgery,nursing,allied health professional to assess and manage trauma victims. team work behavior include communication, leadership,coordination and decision making.

• it improves patient outcome
• heilp in assiessment and resuscitation of patient
• security officer communicates between hospital staff
• thry collect a better sense of the situation
• reduce time from injury to intervention

Debriefing

debriefing is sharing of information and event related to traumatic event.

listners can be therapist who are involved to process the information

session last fom 30mts to 3 hours.occurs within 24-72 hours

steps include introduction,fact gathering

reaction phase,symptom phase,stress response,suggestions ,incident phase

• provides safe platformto share trauma
• coping strategies can be shared to others
• ventilating in a safe environment or emotional catharsis
• group support.peer support
• stress reduction
• allows follow ups