Trauma team roles

Overview

Trauma team function is aimed at providing advanced simultaneous care to improve the outcome for the patient. Trauma teams have been shown to reduce the time to resuscitation and disposition management decisions including CT and OT transfer. The trauma team leader role is important in both the delivery of clinical knowledge and non-technical skills to effectively manage the team.

Description

This resource kit provides participants the opportunity to explore the trauma team roles and effective communication strategies for patient care.

Learning objectives

By the end of this session the participant will be able to:

• Understand trauma team roles and how to effectively mobilise trauma team members
• Explore team composition with varied numbers of team members and skill mix
• Identify key strategies for effective communication within the trauma team

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