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Hospital Trauma Committees
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... HOSPITAL TRAUMA COMMITTEES Trauma committees, as standing committees of hospital staffs, might serve several easeful purposes. As multi-specialty groups, they would set the standards of care, supervise staffing and function of the emergency department, maintain the trauma registry, and conduct training programs for staff, paramedical and ambulance personnel in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other advanced techniques.
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Key Terms

  • hospital trauma
  • continuing description
  • selected injuries
  • pilot basis
  • reportable diseases

  • recommendation formation
  • standing committees
  • committees trauma
  • selected hospitals
  • conduct training

  • trauma registries
  • advanced techniques
  • selected hospita
  • designating selected
  • ambulance personnel

  • cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  • trauma registry
  • emergency department
  • service control
  • easeful purposes

  • hospital staffs
  • various forms
  • natural history
  • supervise staffing
  • computerized central

  • national computerized
  • coordinate research
  • continuing analysis
  • physician care
  • training programs


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