Achieving Zero in Our Most Vulnerable Adult Trauma Population: How We Eliminated Hospital Acquired Complication in Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Patients Presenter: Kristen Ray, MSN, RN, TCRN, CCRN
Patients with spinal cord injuries can have long and fulling lives, but commonly acquire preventable hospital complications which can shorten their life expectancy. At UF Health Jacksonville, struggled with hospital acquired complications in the adult acute spinal cord injuries. Utilizing a few very easy interventions, they were able to accomplish the goal of zero harm. This session will be a guide through the performance improvement project to achieve zero. Objectives:
- Recognize the importance of getting to zero harm in spinal cord injury patients
- Identify the needs of spinal cord injury patient population
- Understanding the performance improvement process
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Be The Leader You Would Follow: Ten Tips to Leadership Success! Presenter: Joseph S. Blansfield, MS, NP, TCRN
Leadership is everyone’s job. Trauma nurses are accountable and must exercise leadership traits. We should know what strategies are successful and should be followed. By identifying and understanding successful methods in those we follow, we can anticipate successful outcomes and emulate those traits for ourselves. The learner will receive practical, realistic and easily applicable tools that can be used right away to assess a leader’s contribution and to improve everyone’s leadership skills. Objectives:
- Appreciate the distinction between true leadership and popularity or prestige.
- Understand the leadership traits of several highly successful leaders throughout history.
- Apply these traits to your own situation in order to influence others to obtain individual and collective success.
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Bypassing a Broken Body: ECMO and the Adult Trauma Patient Presenter: Kristen Ray ,MSN, RN, TCRN, CCRN
When a trauma patient is critically injured, as a trauma center we may have to bypass the body itself and take control in order for there to be survival. ECMO is not a new intervention, but when used for trauma patients specifically, it can provide a life-line that we never thought was possible. This session will provide a review of the latest research and literature for optimal outcomes, while digging deep into a case study that incorporates the best of the science of medicine Objectives:
- Recognize the early signs and symptoms of ARDS in the trauma patient.
- Comprehend the pathophysiology of the ECMO machine.
- Verbalize the difference between VV ECMO and VA ECMO
- Compare and Contrast the different lung resuscitation options for trauma patients.
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Followership: The Other Half of Leadership in Trauma Resuscitation Presenter: Nicole Frederick,DNP, APRN, ACCNS-AG, CCRN-CSC, TCRN
We’ve all seen it – a good or bad team member can make or break a trauma. Leadership is well studied and taught. Followership, a specific set of skills that complement leadership, is not – even though up to 80% of the healthcare workforce might be classified as a follower. This session will give nurse leaders – formal and informal – the tools they need to define followership and followership styles and utilize their team’s energy by understanding how followership influences the team dynamics. Objectives:
- Describe Followership.
- Compare and contrast the five followership styles.
- Understand how a trauma resuscitation can be influenced by the followership style of resuscitation team members.
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From Disaster Medicine Assistance Team Deployment to New York Pandemic Epicenter: One Trauma Program Manager’s Journey Presenter: Annemarie Glazer, RN, BSN, MBA, NHDP-BC, TCRN
This session details the path of a trauma program manager from DMAT deployment to the work done in one of the eight New York hospitals designated as a Coronavirus hot spot. This presentation describes the assessment, planning, and implementation of a pandemic response and the many changes that were made to address the fluid nature of this event. We will present data and information regarding the changes in the trauma system from pre-hospital care to the admission of the trauma patient. Objectives:
- Evolution of the pandemic as seen in one of the New York Coronavirus hotspots from a trauma perspective.
- Discussion will occur regarding the hospitals preparation for the first wave of patients
- No “Business as usual”
- Trauma staff with alternate roles
- Ever changing governmental regulations
- COVID Volume
- Fiscal Issues
- PPE management
- Regional Trauma Advisory Committee participation
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Hemorrhagic Shock and Resuscitation in Trauma: Salt Water, Red Stuff, and All Bleeding Stops Eventually Presenter: Nicole Cook, MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, CEN, CCRN, TCRN
Trauma providers must remain current on best practices and assessment techniques related to hemorrhagic shock as it is the leading cause of preventable death in trauma. This session will give a brief review of the pathophysiology of hemorrhagic shock, review key indicators and occult signs of shock, as well as best practices in resuscitation and assessment. Balanced resuscitation, permissive hypotension, trending resuscitative markers, and definitive care will be reviewed in this presentation. Objectives:
- Relate clinical findings in hemorrhagic shock with the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms.
- Describe the assessment and key indicators of hemorrhagic shock and under-resuscitation in trauma patients.
- Summarize best practices in the treatment and resuscitation of patients in hemorrhagic shock.
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How to Implement and Sustain a Program of Nursing Specific Education for REBOA in a High-Volume Trauma Center Presenters: Brody Eick, MBA, BSN, RN, CEN, CCRN, TCRN Elizabeth Naber, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, CNRN
REBOA is an adjunct used in the resuscitation of the patient experiencing non-compressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH). Maintaining competency and familiarity with REBOA can be a challenging process. We will review the methods used at one of the busiest trauma centers in the country that has a very high frequency of REBOA deployment and maintains nursing competency and compliance through the use of didactic and high fidelity simulations. Objectives:
- Create a successful and sustainable program for REBOA education
- Describe a high fidelity simulation case incorporating the use of a REBOA catheter
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The Impact of a New Electronic Medical Record on the Trauma Registrars Data Abstraction into Our Registry Presenter: Annemarie Glazer, RN, BSN, MBA, NHDP-BC, TCRN
In October of 2019, this facility transitioned to a different electronic medical record. We will describe the challenges we encountered from the initial education for this EMR, the implementation into practice, the need to incorporate the IT team for trauma specific data collection, and the COVID pandemic. Along with this information we did a timing survey to determine how long we took to return to our baseline time frame for data abstraction. Objectives:
- Identify several needs for success in this process. This includes the education on the new EMR, implementation with the registry staff as well as other users of the trauma database, identification of gaps in data access, and onboarding new staff.
- Identify with the experience of the personnel in the trauma program that had the added challenge of remote work during the COVID pandemic and its resultant limited access to IT resources
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Implementation of a Non-Accidental Trauma (NAT) Screening Tool Presenter: Tracylain Evans, DNP, MPH, MBA, RN, EMT/P, TCRN, CEN, NE-BC
In 2019, ACS TQIP guidelines were published recommending standardized assessment of child abuse and sentinel events. This session will provide a discussion of lessons learned in creating synergy between the emergency department, surgery, child protective services, and information technology. Objectives:
- Define NAT and incidence.
- Explain the need for implementation of a standardized screening tool.
- Justify the cost of IT implementation.
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Improving EMS Triage of High-Risk Geriatric Trauma Patients Presenter: Tracylain Evans, DNP, MPH, MBA, RN, EMT/P, TCRN, CEN, NE-BC
Unfortunately, many EMS providers inaccurately triage geriatric trauma patients. The failure to gather and relay critical details often results in undertriage and delayed trauma team activation. Trauma nurse leaders can utilize the Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA) to predict system weaknesses, enhance surveillance, and empower providers to adequately assess elderly trauma patients. Objectives:
- Describe events resulting in inaccurate triage.
- Conduct a Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Implement prehospital enhanced triage training.
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Mentoring and Coaching the Trauma Program Manager (TPM) Through the 7 Realms Presenter: Kathleen Martin, MSN, RN
TPMs function as co-managers of trauma programs with the TMD. They often start with little orientation to the 7 realms they manage: clinical, PIPS, administration, registry, consultant, research and trauma system involvement. Courses exist to bridge the gap, but mentoring and coaching are invaluable. We'll discuss the trauma mentor as an experienced guide assisting the TPM in learning their role focusing on a future career, versus the coach who focuses on molding the TPMs present performance. Objectives:
- Identify the 7 realms of the Trauma Program Manager Role
- Understand the elements of mentoring by an experienced guide
- Recognize the steps in coaching a Trauma Program Manager to improve present performance.
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A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative for Improved Trauma Discharges Presenters: Rachel Moore, BSN, RN, TCRN Beth Cipra, DNP, RN, APRN-CNS, CCRN-K
Ineffective trauma discharges have been shown to result in patient and staff dissatisfaction, automated discharge call alerts, frequent calls to the triage line for clarification of instructions, and hospital readmissions. A multidisciplinary taskforce was created to analyze data, discuss gaps in discharge process, and identify areas for improvement. A nursing subgroup met to identify specific gaps in the discharge process related directly to nursing, including patient education. Objectives:
- Describe how the various disciplines impact patient discharge in trauma.
- The participant will gain insight into how ineffective discharges impact the patient, family, and hospital.
- Identify steps that a trauma center can implement to improve discharges and reduce readmissions.
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My COVID Awakening Presenter: Julie Nash, MSN, RN
Coming soon...
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Nursing Students Develop Quality Improvement Projects for Facilities Using Live Videoconferencing During a Pandemic Presenters: Melissa Wholeben, Ph.D, RN, CNE Diane Rankin, MSN, RN, MACE Audrey Tolouian, EdD, MSN, RN, CNE
This session will discuss how live technology (video camera, computer/tablet/ smartphone, and a videoconferencing platform) can be used to provide clinical experiences for nursing students as well as provide opportunities for health care providers/clinical educators to meet the needs of their community during a pandemic. Clinical educators may use virtual technology to provide education sessions for clinical staff as well as for aggregate patient/family/community populations. Objectives:
- Identify ways to use a virtual platform to provide educational sessions to members of the community and interdisciplinary partners.
- Discuss how to use live conferencing technology—video conferencing—to demonstrate the skills acquired by nursing students during a mentorship experience.
- Determine multidisciplinary collaboration partners that can be used to develop, implement, and evaluate virtual mentorships/educational sessions within their own system.
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Pediatric Spinal Cord Injuries: Little Patients Need a Big Team Presenter: Nicole Cook, MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, CEN, CCRN, TCRN
Pediatric patients presenting with acute traumatic spinal cord injuries require a multidisciplinary team to appropriately address their myriad of needs. This presentation utilizes a case study format to review the key players in a clinical nurse specialist team approach to pediatric spinal cord care, as well as potential pitfalls and pearls. Objectives:
- Discuss and relate a team approach to pediatric spinal cord care and its impact on preventing adverse outcomes.
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Play Me Some Mountain Music: Health Systems Trauma Quality Improvement Collaboratives Presenter: Robbie Dumond, MHA, BSN, TCRN, AEMT
Trauma Quality Improvement Collaborative programs have been in place for several years at a statewide and regional level. Implementation of these collaborative programs has improved the quality of care delivered leading to optimal outcomes for injured patients across the continuum. This presentation will focus on how these trauma quality improvement collaborative programs can be facilitated not only at a statewide level, but within health system hospitals or smaller groups of hospitals. Objectives:
- The learner will identify the key components of a successful trauma quality improvement collaborative program
- The learner will identify the key priorities in establishing a health system trauma quality improvement collaborative program
- The learner will describe barriers in implementing health system collaborative programs and identify ways to overcome these barriers
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Private Vehicle Trauma Activation Charge: How to Bring Your Health System Together to Execute Presenter: Christine Thorkildsen, BSN, CCRN, TCRN
Uniform billing code 450 or the trauma activation charge for a patient that arrives by private vehicle is a legitimate charge that can be billed for but can be a challenge to implement within your facility or health care system. This session will share experiences on how it was researched, discussed, and collaboratively executed within a health system. Objectives:
- Understand the uniform billing code 450 (team charge for patient arriving by private vehicle) differences
- Understand the challenges of implementing this with a finance department that is non-clinical
- Discuss options by providing education to senior leadership, finance, compliance, revenue integrity, coding, ED and electronic health record staff
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Registry Re-Boot for Trauma Leadership Presenter: Tracylain Evans, DNP, MPH, MBA, RN, EMT/P, TCRN, CEN, NE-BC
Trauma nurse leaders must utilize the tools of process mapping to ensure that data is correctly abstracted for accuracy. Registry extraction is costly, and poor data management is dangerous. This session presents lessons learned and system improvement. Objectives:
- Diagram the process of registry abstraction.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of their institution-specific processes.
- Justify the cost/benefit of automation.
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Relationship-Centered Communication with Patients and Families in Trauma Intensive Care to Optimize Outcomes: Meeting the Challenge Despite Restricted Visitation Presenters: Anna Newcomb, PhD, MSW, LCSW Juan Davila Shira Rothberg, MSW, LCSW Cynthia Blank-Reid, MSN, RN, TCRN, CEN Rachel Appelbaum, MD
In this session we will 1) describe the critical care family's understanding of the patient’s condition and care plan compared to that of the care team, 2) identify factors influencing understanding, including COVID-related restrictions and 3) suggest ways to improve communication. A panel, including a family member, nurse, surgeon, and social worker, will share their perspective of the intersection between critical care, quality of care, caring, and patient/family-centered communication. Objectives:
- Understand factors influencing family-provider communication quality in the trauma ICU
- Identify hospital and provider factors that can be improved to increase provider-family engagement quality, during and beyond the pandemic
- Appreciate the role of communication in outcomes and patient/family experience
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Setting Up a Trauma Research Program: Moving From New Guy to PI Presenter: Shane Urban, BSN, RN
Demonstrating research output is a requirement for level one trauma designation, but few resources exist on how to set up a thriving trauma research program. This session will provide a roadmap for establishing a trauma research program based on the lessons learned as a level two trauma center advanced to a level one trauma center. Along with describing how the research program was established, this session discusses program sustainability and future directions. Objectives:
- Learn how to establish a low cost trauma research program and the benefits of having an established research program at your center
- Provide an overview of research technology available that can streamline using trauma registry reports for research purposes
- Introduction to publicly available resources for finding research studies to conduct at your trauma center
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Taking Time to Enjoy Some Coffee! Adding Mindfulness to Daily Practice Presenters: Audrey Tolouian, EdD, MSN, RN, CNE Melissa Wholeben, Ph.D, RN, CNE Diane Rankin, MSN, RN, MACE
This session will discuss how to use a virtual platform to provide quality mindfulness and community building experiences to nurses while addressing the needs of self-care during the current pandemic. Experiences include mindfulness projects, sharing of ups and downs, and providing moral support to each other through a virtual platform with semi-structured activities. One of the goals is to expand the Coffee Shop to alleviate stressors brought on by caring for people in traumatic situations. Objectives:
- Identify tools to use for innovative virtual experiences
- Assess activities that build a sense of connection with others in a virtual environment
- Understand mindfulness and its place in nursing
- Discuss implementation ideas into new arenas
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Trauma-Informed Care for the SANE Population: Evaluating Community Risk and Creation of a Healthcare Provider Tool Presenters: Melissa Wholeben, Ph.D, RN, CNE Robert McCreary, MA Gloria Salazar, MSN, RN, MA, CA-CP SANE
By utilizing a trauma-informed approach, providers have the potential to help patients affected by trauma to feel safe, recover, and regain developmental trajectories. It is important to complete an organization risk review of the community and create a healthcare provider tool to gather real-time data. This session will review the Trauma-Informed Care principals, describe the steps of an organization risk review and the steps to create/validate a healthcare provider tool. Objectives:
- Define Trauma-Informed Care principals in Trauma Care.
- Discuss the components of the Community Risk assessment and the importance of identifying the community needs.
- Identify the steps in creating and validating a healthcare provider tool regarding real-time Trauma-Informed Care principals and implementation.
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Trauma Life in Covid Times Presenter: Jane McCormack, BSN, RN Annemarie Glazer, RN, BSN, MBA, NHDP-BC, TCRN
Long Island New York was an epicenter of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic in March 2020. The effect on trauma centers was immediate and widespread. Hospitals increased bed and ICU capacity by up to 100% and trauma center personnel were re-deployed to meet staffing needs. Hospitalizations for injury decreased and injury patterns changed. Learn how two Level I Trauma Centers (in different health care systems) managed resources and maintained trauma center functions during the pandemic’s peak. Objectives:
- To describe the impact of SARS-COV-2 on two Level 1 Trauma Centers in the NY City suburbs
- To identify trends relating to injury admissions that occurred in the 2020 pandemic
- To describe strategies to maximize trauma center function during staff re-deployment
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The Trauma Nurse Lead: The Secret Weapon and Missing Link to Improve Patient and Organizational Outcomes Presenter: Jaclyn Gosnell, MSN, RN, TCRN, CEN Lindsay Leland, BSN, RN, TCRN
The Trauma Nurse Lead (TNL) role is instrumental in collaborating with the the initial and ongoing care of the trauma patient to improve overall quality of care as well as improve operational metrics. This session will define how the TNL role functions in the 24/7 care delivery model and the evolution of the role in providing high quality care in partnership with the multidisciplinary team to create and sustain quality patient and operational outcomes. Objectives:
- Define the role of the trauma nurse lead within the organization.
- Examine key patient and operational quality metrics that have been impacted by utilization of the TNL role.
- Describe key principles in creating and sustaining the role within the organization.
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Trauma Nurses Rounding on Trauma Patients Admitted to a Medical Surgical Unit Improves Outcomes and Decreases Length of Stay: A Quality Improvement Project Presenter: Jennifer L. Maley, RN, MSN, TCRN
The trauma patient has been defined as “an injured person who requires timely diagnosis and treatment of actual or potential injuries by a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals, supported by the appropriate resource, to diminish or eliminate the risk of death or permanent disability.” The Trauma Nurse has received specialized training to care for the traumatically injured patient. This presentation focuses on the management of the trauma patient admitted to a non-trauma unit. Objectives:
- Understand the importance of admitting trauma patients to a trauma unit.
- Describe common opportunities and troubleshooting when admitting a trauma patient to a non-trauma designated medical surgical floor.
- Discuss what's involved in planning for Trauma Outliers and what to monitor for when rounding on these patients.
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Trauma System Performance Improvement: Importance of Standardized Qualitative and Quantitative Outcome Measures Presenter: Kathleen Martin, MSN, RN
Quantifiable outcome metrics have long been utilized by trauma centers resulting in optimal care and meeting essential PIPS criterion. Trauma Systems must cultivate a system-wide PIPS process inclusive of epidemiological and road crashes data, pre-hospital and trauma center care, and post-discharge outcomes. Trauma systems must be empowered to collate data and provide reproducible reports to providers across the continuum. We will review the recommended trauma system PIPS metrics. Objectives:
- Be able to identify the recommendations for leadership of a state/regional/provincial trauma system.
- Understand the eleven essential elements of a trauma system which includes provision for trauma system evaluation and performance improvement.
- Be able to recognize key metrics for trauma system performance improvement across the continuum.
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Tying it Up: Effective Loop Closure Presenter: Jane McCormack, BSN, RN
Loop closure is the final step in the performance improvement (PI) process. By closing the loop, the trauma center demonstrates that the corrective action has been effective. Too often, loop closure is incomplete or inadequately documented. Failing to demonstrate event resolution can be a criteria deficiency during an ACS verification visit. This case-based session will utilize examples demonstrating both complete and incomplete loop closure of both system and provider issues. Objectives:
- To define event resolution (loop closure) as it related to the trauma center's PI Plan.
- To differentiate between a system issue and a provider issue, and offer examples of loop closure for each.
- To offer suggestions of how trauma registry data can support loop closure.
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Unidirectional Flow Process: How Implementation Can Improve Patient Flow Through A Health System During Known Surge Events Presenters: Diana Grimm-Mapp, BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN Kirby Thierheimer, BSN, RN Chelsea Burke, BSN, RN
This session will provide a general overview of how one island-based trauma center adapted its emergency department’s patient flow to prepare for known surge events with increased trauma patient volumes. Using this short-term unidirectional flow model requires multidisciplinary collaboration in preparedness, implementation, and mitigation phases to provide best care and reduce ED length of stay. We will review the data supporting this change in practice and provide opportunities for replication in other arenas. Objectives:
- Identify the need for a change in process for predicted trauma surge events.
- Understand logistical requirements of a unidirectional flow structure within emergency departments and inpatient treatment areas.
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The Use of a Centralized Trauma Registry Workforce to Provide Optimal Functionality for Individual Trauma Centers Within a Healthcare System Presenters: Vicki Bennett, MSN, RN Amy Koestner, MSN, RN
Trauma centers are constantly being challenged with managing resources to meet the daily demands of trauma operations including volume shifts and staffing variations. The development of a centralized registry workforce provides the ability to flex and train resources across a hospital system’s level I - IV centers while promoting efficiency across varying program demands. The presenters will describe two hospital systems that utilize this concept to create a sustainable registry model. Objectives:
- Define a process to develop, implement, and evaluate the use of a centralized registry workforce model.
- Describe the registry structure to support abstraction, validation, data retrieval, and reporting for level I - IV centers as well as the value to incorporate data usage in a hospital system.
- Describe opportunities for skill development, training of registry staff and PI nurses, and preparing for and supporting state designation and ACS verification visits.
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Use of SCI Guidelines to Decrease Complications and LOS: A Multidisciplinary Approach Presenter: Pamela Vanderberg, MSN, MBA, RN, TCRN, CEN
GSMC became a verified Trauma ll Center in 2013. Spinal Cord Injury patients require a high degree of skilled integrated care for successful outcomes and have a very high risk for secondary complications during hospitalization. GSMC identified a need for additional staff training and care guidelines for these SCI patients. This session will describe the process used to develop SCI guidelines quarterly education for front line care providers. Objectives:
- Describe the development of standardized SCI guidelines and order sets to improve care and reduce complications in the SCI patient.
- Describe the use of bowel and bladder protocols to improve SCI outcomes.
- Describe educational course, "Neuro Boot Camp", that improved standardization of care to SCI patients and improved outcomes.
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Volume Up or Volume Down? Did COVID Impact the Percentages of Blunt vs. Penetrating Trauma at a Level 1 Center Presenter: Annemarie Glazer, RN, BSN, MBA, NHDP-BC, TCRN
This presentation will highlight the differences in blunt and penetrating trauma during the peak of the pandemic at our facility. This ACS Level 1 center experienced a decrease in overall trauma volume during the peak of the COVID pandemic. The patients in the cohort did demonstrate a certain rate of positive COVID patients and a higher rate of penetrating injuries. We will describe the differences between this center's pre-covid and post-covid rates of blunt vs. penetrating injury. Objectives:
- Describe the challenges for the Trauma Program providing care during the pandemic.
- Demonstrate the changes in the rates of blunt and penetrating trauma from the same time frame for 2019 and 2020.
- Describe the tests that the program faced which impacted the total rate of actual and missed trauma activations. Also included will be how these challenges impacted the program.
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Weather or Not: How Environmental Injuries Impact Patient Care Presenter: Joseph S. Blansfield, MS, NP, TCRN
Weather-related injuries are common yet underappreciated events that routinely affect patient care. Learn about heat and cold injuries and their treatment, how weather-related disasters can impact our facilities and communities, and the trauma nurse's role in responding. Also, let's take a critical look at the role of the lunar cycle and it's impact on human behavior. Does the moon make us "lunatics" or not? What does the science tell us? Objectives:
- Understand Environmental Extremes of Heat and Cold
- Appreciate Weather Events and Their Impact on Disaster Planning
- Discern the Lunar Cycle Effect on Human Behavior
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