TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - The 2014 Academic College of Emergency Experts in India's INDO-US Joint Working Group (JWG) White Paper on "Developing Trauma Sciences and Injury Care in India"
JO  - International journal of critical illness and injury science
A1  - Pal, Ranabir
A1  - Agarwal, Amit
A1  - Galwankar, Sagar
A1  - Swaroop, Mamta
A1  - Stawicki, Stanislaw P.
A1  - Rajaram, Laxminarayan
A1  - Paladino, Lorenzo
A1  - Aggarwal, Praveen
A1  - Bhoi, Sanjeev
A1  - Dwivedi, Sankalp
A1  - Menon, Geetha
A1  - Misra, Mc
A1  - Kalra, Op
A1  - Singh, Ajai
A1  - Radjou, Angeline Neetha
A1  - Joshi, Anuja
SP  - 114
EP  - 130
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
N2  - It is encouraging to see the much needed shift in the understanding and recognition of the concept of "burden of disease" in the context of traumatic injury. Equally important is understanding that the impact of trauma burden rivals that of nontraumatic morbidities. Subsequently, this paradigm shift reinstates the appeal for timely interventions as the standard for management of traumatic emergencies. Emergency trauma care in India has been disorganized due to inadequate sensitivity toward patients affected by trauma as well as the haphazard, nonuniform acceptance of standardization as the norm. Some of the major hospitals across various regions in the country do have trauma care units, but even those lack protocols to ensure that all trauma cases are handled by those units, largely owing to lack of structured referral system. As a first step to reform the state of trauma care in the country, a detailed overview is needed to gain insight into the prevailing reality. The objectives of this paper are to thus weave a foundation based on the statistical and qualitative burden of trauma in the country; the available infrastructure of trauma care centers equipped to deal with trauma; the need and scope of standardized protocols for intervention; and most importantly, the application of these in shaping educational initiatives in advancing emergency trauma care in the country.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2229-5151
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.134151
ID  - ref1
ER  -