@article{ref1,
title="Essential measures for prehospital treatment of severely injured patients : the trauma care bundle",
journal="Unfallchirurg",
year="2015",
author="Matthes, Gerrit and Trentzsch, H. and Wölfl, C. G. and Paffrath, T. and Flohé, S. and Schweigkofler, U. and Ekkernkamp, A. and Schulz-Drost, S.",
volume="118",
number="8",
pages="652-656",
abstract="BACKGROUND: In order to ensure adequate treatment and to avoid complications, care bundles are increasingly being implemented. These are comprehensive and evidence-based procedures for the treatment of individual diseases or injuries which should be carried out for every patient. The aim of this study was to define a care bundle for the prehospital treatment of severely injured patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The scientific contents of the bundle were gathered from the interdisciplinary evidence-based S3 guidelines for the treatment of severely injured patients by the German Trauma Society. The ABCDE scheme suggested by the prehospital trauma life support (PHTLS®) and the advanced trauma life support (ATLS®) functioned as a matrix for the individual elements in the bundles. The identified elements were finalized by a consensus process. <br><br>RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: A bundle of six elements was suggested and a comprehensive summary of key items during prehospital management of severely injured patients was identified. In a next step the effectiveness of the care bundle should be evaluated in a clinical trial.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0177-5537",
doi="10.1007/s00113-015-0042-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00113-015-0042-7"
}