Emerging Trauma Trends: Where is Your Practice?

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Trauma practice is dynamic in nature. Trauma performance improvement data, systems advancements, and the latest science and developing evidence result in new approaches and innovative trends in trauma care and patient outcomes. Multiple authors have studied translation of research into practice and state that it takes an average of 17 years. 1 Balas E, Boren S. Managing clinical knowledge for health care improvement. In: van Bemmel JH, McCray AT, eds. Yearbook of Medical Informatics. Stuttgart, Germany: Schattauer Verlagsgesellschaft mbH; 2000: 65-70. http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Publications/Managingclinicalknowledgeforhealthcareimprovement.aspx. Accessed January 4, 2018. Google Scholar , 2 Westfall JM, Mold J, Fagnani L. Practice-based research: “blue highways” on the NIH roadmap. JAMA 2007:297(4):403-406. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/205216?redirect=true. Accessed January 4, 2018. Google Scholar The Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC), 7th edition, contains a new chapter section, entitled “Emerging Trends,” to highlight some of that developing evidence not yet translated into practice. 3 Emergency Nurses Association Trauma Nursing Core Course Provider Manual. 7th ed. Emergency Nurses Association, Des Plaines, IL2014 Google Scholar Let’s look at 3 of those emerging trends and see where they are today in current practice. Diane Gurney, Member and President, Central MA Chapter, is an Emergency Nursing Education Professional and Consultant in Athol, MA.