The potential of point-of-care diagnostics to optimise prehospital trauma triage: a systematic review of literature.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In the prehospital care of potentially seriously injured patients resource allocation adapted to injury severity (triage) is a challenging. Insufficiently specified triage algorithms lead to the unnecessary activation of a trauma team (over-triage), resulting in ineffective consumption of economic and human resources. A prehospital trauma triage algorithm must reliably identify a patient bleeding or suffering from significant brain injuries. By supplementing the prehospital triage algorithm with in-hospital established point-of-care (POC) tools the sensitivity of the prehospital triage is potentially increased. Possible POC tools are lactate measurement and sonography of the thorax, the abdomen and the vena cava, the sonographic intracranial pressure measurement and the cap

SUBMITTER: Stojek L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10449679 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature