National Guideline for the Field Triage of Injured Patients: Recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2021

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• Craig Newgard; Peter Fischer; Mark Gestring; Holly Michaels; Gregory Jurkovich; E. Brooke Lerner
PMID: 35475939DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000003627

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The article is about the 2021 National Guideline for Field Triage of Injured Patients. It describes how emergency medical services (EMS) decide which injured patients need to go to specialized trauma centers. The guideline aims to improve patient outcomes by ensuring seriously injured people get the right care quickly. It includes new criteria and changes based on expert reviews and feedback from EMS workers. The guideline also emphasizes reducing undertriage, where serious injuries are missed, and overtriage, where minor injuries are treated as serious ones, aiming for better efficiency in trauma systems.

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Focus Areas: Trauma; Violence

Audiences: Emergency Managers; EMS Clinicians; Nurses; Physicians

Emergency Management Stage: Response

Keywords: Emergency Medical Services; Injury Severity Score; Trauma Centers; Triage; Wounds and Injuries; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Guideline Adherence

Institutions: Oregon Health & Science University; University of Tennessee; University of Rochester; American College of Surgeons; UC Davis Health; University at Buffalo

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