Visitation by physicians did not improve triage in trauma patients.

Introduction: A formalized trauma response team is designed to optimize the quality and progress of patient care for severely injured patients in order to reduce mortality and morbidity. The goal of this study was to determine over- and undertriage and to evaluate if a physician-manned pre-hospital response (MD-EMS) would reduce overtriage. Overtriage was defined as the process of over-estimating the level of injury sustained by an individual.

[Seriously injured patients intubated at the accident site. A three-year survey from the mobile emergency care unit in Aarhus].

Background: The success rate of out-of-hospital endotracheal intubations performed by paramedics has been questioned. It seems to be difficult to achieve and keep a routine. The aim was to describe the severity of injuries and the number of such intubations in trauma patients treated by the Mobile Emergency Care Unit (MECU) staffed with an anaesthetist.