On receiving a pre-alert message from a pre-hospital provider, a trauma team should be activated if any of the following criteria are met:
| □ Trauma Triage Tool positive | ||||
| □ Traumatic cardiac arrest | ||||
| A | □ airway obstruction / concern | |||
| B | □ RR <10 or >29 | |||
| □ open pneumothorax | ||||
| □ flail chest | ||||
| C | □ massive / catastrophic haemorrhage | |||
| □ SBP >90 (sustained) | ||||
| □ suspected major pelvic fracture | ||||
| □ penetrating injury to neck / chest | ||||
| D | □ GCS motor <4 | |||
| □ evidence of spinal cord injury | ||||
| □ suspected open / depressed skull fracture | ||||
| E | □ more than 1 proximal long bone fracture | |||
| □ crushed, degloved, mangled or amputated limb | ||||
Trauma team activation:
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