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| Creating a Modern Trauma Center |
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ISBN: 978-3031665233,
374 pages,
Hard Cover
ISBN-10: 3031665236 |
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| Copyright: |
2024 |
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1st |
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| Editor: |
Rogers, Selwyn O., Jr., MD, MPH, FACS |
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Emergency Medicine
, Trauma Surgery |
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| Publisher: |
Springer |
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| List Price: |
$159.99 |
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At A Glance
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This book will provide the reader with an understanding of the journey the University of Chicago went through to develop a modern trauma center where there previously was nothing. In 2018, the University of Chicago Medicine opened a modern adult trauma center in an area that previously suffered from a relative lack of access to adult trauma care. It will chart a journey through the history on the South Side of Chicago and will provide an understanding of the proper needs assessment that goes into planning a new trauma center. It will describe the implementation of the multi-disciplinary teams needed to provide modern trauma care. It will then describe the effects of this trauma center and its future directions. As many places are struggling with caring for increasing levels of violence, there likely will be a need for others to go through a similar developmental process. Sharing the experience of the University of Chicago Medicine going from a non-trauma hospital to the busiest trauma center in Chicago, we hope that this book will provide some guidance Learn more and order here.
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Reviewer:
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David Dries,
MSE, MD
(Regions Hospital)
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David Dries,
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Description
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| This is the first edition of a multi author book describing the technical and social issues arising with the creation of an urban Trauma Center at the University of Chicago. The story begins with the murder of an under-privileged male and continues through the identification of challenges including gathering needed personnel and other resources for the Trauma Center. |
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Purpose
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| The story developed here begins with an underprivileged male born in the late 1960s on the South Side of Chicago. This young man was considered, when we pick up the story of his teenage years, to be in the among top high school sports prospects in the United States. Sadly, blocks away from his school, as his basketball season was beginning, he sustained gunshot wounds and was critically injured. He was taken to a hospital just two miles from this incident where his operative procedure was delayed for two hours. This unfortunate young man ultimately died of his wounds. His passing led to a local movement to improve a trauma care system which seemed unable to provide essential care for this injured man. This book reviews the events which followed. |
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Audience
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| A trauma center is made up of multiple medical and surgical specialties placed in an infrastructure allowing rapid and effective care for patients with injuries. After identification of the mission for the hospital providing trauma care, administrative leadership as well as essential participation from medical and surgical subspecialties were necessary. Among the specialties needed to support effective trauma management are acute care surgery, pediatric medicine and surgery, critical care medicine, vascular surgery, obstetrics, orthopedics, radiology, and providers in the various neurosciences along with disciplines tied to emergency medicine. Teachers and trainees in these disciplines are an appropriate audience for this book. |
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Features
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| An attractive hard bound volume of over 350 pages includes six parts and 32 chapters. This volume begins with the tragedy described above. Because of social and medical inequality faced by the population in the southern portion of the city, a combined medical and popular movement developed to assemble trauma care resources in the neighborhoods involved on the South Side of Chicago where the social and medical problems of trauma were most acute. A particular focus of this work was the University of Chicago, a major medical center with an academic faculty, medical students, and various other trainees. After identification of challenges faced by a new Trauma Center at the university, Part II of this story describes initial Trauma Center development. Foundation resources identified for Trauma Center development, which receive attention in this volume, include constituents of the trauma program such as patients and medical care providers. The book provides specific description of operating room preparation for trauma care, identifying participating staff members, and creating the necessary performance culture. After modeling the Trauma Center in the hospital itself, authors describe the local Violence Recovery Program focused on the Trauma Center and the South Side neighborhoods of Chicago. Trauma care is a multidisciplinary task. Subsequent chapters in Part III of this book describe the identification of individuals recruited to support trauma care. This includes neurosurgery, orthopedics, vascular surgery, rehabilitation teams, chaplaincy staff, radiology, and Emergency Medical Services for both adult and pediatric patients. With identification of essential personnel, protocols for Trauma Center response to distinct types of casualty scenarios were developed along with identification and description of an approach to building an effective Trauma Hospital in the setting of technical and emotional barriers. Part IV of the book gathers this information. Effective trauma care is based on a variety of partnerships, such as those between university faculty and various training programs which are described in Part V. Much of the care provided in the Trauma Center is provided by trainees in focused fellowship programs. Some of these programs, built to support the trauma work of the University of Chicago, were surgical critical care, trauma surgical management, and creation of a partnership between military and civilian providers working together at the University Hospital. The final part of this volume includes reflections on structural and ethical barriers to faculty development in an academic Trauma Center. In closing remarks, the book reflects on trauma program impact on trainee experience at various levels. Chapters are clearly written and are completed by a subject index along with tables, line drawings, and other data to support messages presented. Chapters also include references, where appropriate, which support observations made. The table of contents lists chapters by parts of the book and attributes authorship. |
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Assessment
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| This book tells a compelling story highlighting the challenges associated with urban management of injury in the setting of medical and social inequality. In addition to the social problems posed by trauma, it effectively describes technical details of trauma system creation. The orientation of this information is unique among other technical volumes describing injury care. This combination of social and scientific information produces a valuable resource book. |
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