National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital Researchers Have Published New Data on Acute Care Surgery (Preventable Death Rate of Trauma Patients in a Non-Regional Trauma Center): Surgery – Acute Care Surgery

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2023 DEC 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Medical Devices Daily -- Data detailed on acute care surgery have been presented. According to news reporting out of Goyang, South Korea, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “A nationwide study (2012-2017) of preventable trauma death rates (PTDR) showed a 15.3% decrease after Regional Trauma centers were initiated. However, in non-trauma centers with an Emergency Department there is limited data of preventable mortality in trauma patients.”

Financial supporters for this research include National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital: “Therefore, the purpose of this retrospective study was to investigate preventable mortality in trauma patients in a non-regional trauma center and determine the effect of initiating a Trauma Team. There were 46 deaths of trauma patients recorded in the National Health Insurance service Ilsan Hospital (NHISIH) in South Korea from January 2019 to December 2021. These patients’ preventable deaths were analyzed by an expert panel review considering the implementation of the Trauma Team in April 2020. All deaths were attributable to blunt trauma with an average Injury Severity Score of 26.0 ± 19.2, Revised Trauma Score of 5.05 ± 3.20 and Trauma and Injury Score of 56.6 ± 41.3. The most frequent cause of death was traumatic brain injury followed by respiratory arrest. The most frequent error was delayed transfusion followed by delayed treatment of bleeding. Treatment errors occurred the most in the Emergency Room followed by the Intensive Care Unit. The PTDR of patients before the involvement of a Trauma Team (January 2019 to March 2020) and after the Trauma Team was initiated in April 2020 decreased from 27.27% to 4.27%, respectively (p = 0.021).”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The introduction of a dedicated Trauma Team in a non-regional trauma center significantly reduced the overall PTDR in trauma patients.”

For more information on this research see: Preventable Death Rate of Trauma Patients in a Non-Regional Trauma Center. Journal of Acute Care Surgery, 2023,13(3):118-123. The publisher for Journal of Acute Care Surgery is Korean Society of Acute Care Surgery.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.17479/jacs.2023.13.3.118.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Kwanhoon Park, Department of Surgery, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Wooram Choi, Sungho Lee, Kang Yoon Lee, Dongbeen Choi, Han-Gil Yoon, Ji Young Jang.