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Trauma epidemiology and the organization of trauma care in the US
CHEST INFECTIONS AND DISASTER RESPONSE NETWORK
Disaster Response and Global Health Section
Patients who are injured do better when treated at trauma centers.
During CHEST 2023 in Honolulu last year, the Disaster Response and Global Health Section hosted a presentation to a packed audience highlighting the history of the trauma model system in America. Attendees learned about the emergence of trauma systems in the US and the survival advantages that trauma centers offer to patients who are injured.
Inception of the first “trauma manual” was during President Lincoln’s term to address the need for a process to care for patients who were injured during the Civil War. By the time World War II occurred, hospitals had established the idea of emergency departments, and the foundations for an emergency medical system (EMS) emerged on the world scene. Eventually, the Hill-Burton Act of 1946 required hospitals to have emergency departments by incentivizing them with federal funding.
The Committee on Trauma was founded in the 1950s as an adaptation of the American College of Surgeons’ 1922 Committee on Fractures. Then, in 1966, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rolled out a federal initiative for all states to develop EMS programs. Additionally, the National Academy of Sciences published Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society, paving the way for the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act of 1973, along with the Wedworth-Townsend Paramedic Act in California.
The concept of today’s trauma centers started in 1966 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
CHEST INFECTIONS AND DISASTER RESPONSE NETWORK
Disaster Response and Global Health Section
Patients who are injured do better when treated at trauma centers.
During CHEST 2023 in Honolulu last year, the Disaster Response and Global Health Section hosted a presentation to a packed audience highlighting the history of the trauma model system in America. Attendees learned about the emergence of trauma systems in the US and the survival advantages that trauma centers offer to patients who are injured.
Inception of the first “trauma manual” was during President Lincoln’s term to address the need for a process to care for patients who were injured during the Civil War. By the time World War II occurred, hospitals had established the idea of emergency departments, and the foundations for an emergency medical system (EMS) emerged on the world scene. Eventually, the Hill-Burton Act of 1946 required hospitals to have emergency departments by incentivizing them with federal funding.
The Committee on Trauma was founded in the 1950s as an adaptation of the American College of Surgeons’ 1922 Committee on Fractures. Then, in 1966, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rolled out a federal initiative for all states to develop EMS programs. Additionally, the National Academy of Sciences published Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society, paving the way for the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act of 1973, along with the Wedworth-Townsend Paramedic Act in California.
The concept of today’s trauma centers started in 1966 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
CHEST INFECTIONS AND DISASTER RESPONSE NETWORK
Disaster Response and Global Health Section
Patients who are injured do better when treated at trauma centers.
During CHEST 2023 in Honolulu last year, the Disaster Response and Global Health Section hosted a presentation to a packed audience highlighting the history of the trauma model system in America. Attendees learned about the emergence of trauma systems in the US and the survival advantages that trauma centers offer to patients who are injured.
Inception of the first “trauma manual” was during President Lincoln’s term to address the need for a process to care for patients who were injured during the Civil War. By the time World War II occurred, hospitals had established the idea of emergency departments, and the foundations for an emergency medical system (EMS) emerged on the world scene. Eventually, the Hill-Burton Act of 1946 required hospitals to have emergency departments by incentivizing them with federal funding.
The Committee on Trauma was founded in the 1950s as an adaptation of the American College of Surgeons’ 1922 Committee on Fractures. Then, in 1966, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rolled out a federal initiative for all states to develop EMS programs. Additionally, the National Academy of Sciences published Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society, paving the way for the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act of 1973, along with the Wedworth-Townsend Paramedic Act in California.
The concept of today’s trauma centers started in 1966 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.