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Abstracts selected through 999 EMS Research Forum peer review process and presented orally or by poster at Ambex 2005
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M. Boyle1, F. Archer, E. Smith.1Monash University
Introduction: The Review of Trauma and Emergency Services in Victoria 1999 left unresolved the predictive value of mechanism of injury in prehospital trauma triage guidelines. International literature is controversial, with previous studies focusing on major trauma defined at hospital and neglecting the prehospital perspective where these important triage decisions are made. The objective was to determine if mechanism of injury is a useful predictor in prehospital trauma triage.
Methods: All Victorian ambulance trauma patient care records (PCRs) for 2002 were reviewed. PCRs where patients were physiological stable, had no significant pattern of injury, but had a significant mechanism of injury were identified and compared to the State Trauma Registry to determine those patients who sustained retrospectively defined major trauma. Data were stored in a Microsoft Access database, cleaned, and loaded into statistical software for analysis. Ethics committee approval was obtained.
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