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The Trauma Bay Environment

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Trauma Team Dynamics

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The purpose of the trauma resuscitation area is to receive, triage, assess, stabilize, and if necessary transfer critically injured patients. The design of the trauma resuscitation area should maximize efficient patient inflow, treatment, and outflow. Communication between members of the trauma team, at all levels of patient triage and resuscitation, is critical. This chapter will discuss the overall trauma resuscitation environment, including the general physical design of the area and the layout of the individual trauma bay. The chapter will discuss the importance of preparedness and the need to consider the daily expected patient load as well as additional surge capacity in case of mass casualty events.

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  1. Emory University School of Medicine, Glenn Memorial Building, Rm 310, 69 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive SE, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA

    Rondi Gelbard M.D.

  2. Division of Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, University of Southern California, 2051 Marengo Street, Room C5L100, Los Angeles, CA, 90033-4525, USA

    Kenji Inaba M.D., F.R.C.S.C., F.A.C.S.

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  1. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Lawrence M. Gillman

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Sandy Widder

  3. School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

    Michael Blaivas MD

  4. Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

    Dimitrios Karakitsos

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Gelbard, R., Inaba, K. (2016). The Trauma Bay Environment. In: Gillman, L., Widder, S., Blaivas MD, M., Karakitsos, D. (eds) Trauma Team Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16586-8_10

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