Ensuring operating room (OR) availability is a challenge for many trauma centers. It is even more difficult when you are building a new trauma program from scratch within a busy academic medical center. In December 2015, University of Chicago Medicine committed to launching a Level I trauma program to serve the south side of Chicago.…
How to use compliance auditing to demonstrate trauma loop closure
The heart of trauma loop closure is corrective action. Trauma program leaders need to take concrete steps to ensure a past quality problem is less…
Cold-stored whole blood may improve trauma bay survival
Trauma patients who received cold-stored whole blood as their initial blood product were less likely to die in the trauma bay than patients who received…
