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Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma and Society of Trauma Nurses advanced practitioner position paper: Optimizing the integration of advanced practitioners in trauma and critical care.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg
July 2017
From the George Washington University Hospital (J.M., B.S.), Washington, District of Columbia; Department of Surgery/Division of Trauma (J.G-K.), University Hospital, Newark, NJ; Center for Advanced Practice (D.T.), Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, North Carolina; Legacy Emanuel Hospital, Trauma Services, Portland, Oregon (J.V.H.); and Department of Surgery (A.B.C.), The F. H. "Sammy" Ross, Jr, Trauma Center at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants, collectively known as advanced practitioners (APs), enhance the provision of care for the acutely injured patient. Despite their prevalence, institutions employ, train, and utilize these providers with significant variability. The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Society of Trauma Nurses, and the American Association of Surgical Physician Assistants acknowledge the value of APs and support their utilization in the management of injured and critically ill patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrauma intensive care unit 'bouncebacks': identifying risk factors for unexpected return admission to the intensive care unit.
Am Surg
August 2014
The F.H. ''Sammy'' Ross, Jr. Trauma Center at Carolinas Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Return transfer (RT) to the intensive care unit (ICU) negatively impacts patient outcomes, length of stay (LOS), and hospital costs. This study assesses the most common events necessitating RT in trauma patients. We performed a retrospective chart review of ICU RT from 2004 to 2008.
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