Data Exchange Between Ambulance and Trauma Center: Interview Study About the Needs of Emergency Trauma Room Staff.

Abstract

In emergency trauma room, adequate preparation of all resources prior to the patient's arrival is essential to ensure optimal continuation of the treatment. Therefore, a good transfer of information between pre-hospital and hospital is very important, for example through networking technologies. The aim is to identify what pre-hospital information is needed to ensure that all necessary resources in the ETR are optimally prepared for the incoming trauma patient. A qualitative, semi structured interview was conducted with physicians of ETR team at four trauma centers. Physicians mentioned similar requests for pre-hospital information. The workflow in ETRs differed in alerting of team members and transferring of pre-notification information. Clinical needs for pre-hospital information for future development of support systems in the networking of accident site and hospital could be identified.