Publications by authors named "Lina V Mata"
Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC) is a major US military research focus area. PCC is defined as the need to provide patient care for extended periods when evacuation or mission requirements surpass capabilities and/or capacity. US military experts have called for more data relevant to PCC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Improving the quality of pre-hospital traumatic shock care, especially in low- and middle-income countries, is particularly relevant to reducing the large global burden of disease from injury. What clinical interventions represent high-quality care is an actively evolving field and often dependent on the specific injury pattern. A key component of improving the quality of care is having a consistent way to assess and measure the quality of shock care in the pre-hospital setting.
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- More than 1 billion people get serious injuries each year, causing many deaths in Africa and around the world.
- Researchers looked at studies from 2009 to 2020 about how fast help arrives for trauma victims and how that affects survival rates.
- Most studies focus on rich countries and mostly look at deaths in the hospital, so more research is needed on how treatment timing affects people's health right after getting hurt, especially in poorer countries.
Objective: To describes the experience in the implementation of a TRS in two hospitals in Cali, Colombia.
Methods: The TRS includes prehospitalary, during hospitalization and discharging status information of each patient. Each hospital has an electronic data capture strategy.