A scoping review of worldwide studies evaluating the effects of prehospital time on trauma outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Annually, over 1 billion people sustain traumatic injuries, resulting in over 900,000 deaths in Africa and 6 million deaths globally. Timely response, intervention, and transportation in the prehospital setting reduce morbidity and mortality of trauma victims. Our objective was to describe the existing literature evaluating trauma morbidity and mortality outcomes as a function of prehospital care time to identify gaps in literature and inform future investigation.

Main body

We performed a scoping review of published literature in MEDLINE. Results were limited to English language publications from 2009 to 2020. Included articles reported trauma outcomes and prehospital time. We excluded case reports, reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, comments, editorials,

SUBMITTER: Bedard AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7724615 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature