Publications by authors named "Lisa Falcon"
Article Synopsis
- The text is about a program aimed at improving how emergency medical services (EMS) providers decide which patients need immediate help when they are hurt.
- They created a training module called TCEM, and after 72 EMS providers took the course, they felt much more confident and accurate in their decisions.
- However, even though their skills improved, the rate of undertriage (not getting the right treatment on time) stayed pretty much the same before and after the training.
Introduction: Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) has demonstrated up to 50% reduction in alcohol-related traumatic injury and is mandated by the American College of Surgeons for trauma center accreditation. While SBIRT effectiveness has been previously investigated, optimal implementation in the trauma setting has not. We sought to improve SBIRT compliance through integration of screening into a performance improvement checklist (PIC) deployed during morning report.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrauma leads to 5.7 million annual deaths globally, accounting for 25%-33% of global unintentional deaths and 90% of the global trauma burden in low- and middle-income countries. The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and the World Health Organization assert that emergent and essential surgical capacity building and trauma system improvement are essential to address the global burden of trauma.
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