Overlooking any important step in the care of trauma patients requiring an anesthetic can be critical. A checklist may improve the communication in the critical care facility. This article collates a number of checklists for the anesthesiologists that may be useful in multiple phases of trauma and emergency care. Death from traumatic injury is one of the foremost cause of death in adults younger than 45 years of age.
Although the incidences of trauma are less common in the rural areas compared to the urban locales, rural medical centers see severe trauma from manufacturing or farming mishaps, from motor vehicle accidents, and from natural disasters. A trauma and emergency checklists can help reducing patient mortality by assuring that the health care provider does not miss some critical steps of care. Before Patient Arrival To reduce the risk of hypothermia the operating room…
