International
» AAAM AIS Questions
Answers to your AIS coding dilemmas. Includes the AAAM AIS question of the month [Read More...]
» Amercian College of Surgeons
The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational association of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice. [Read More...]
» American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Webnet is provided to promote the exchange of scientific information regarding all phases of the care of the trauma patient. This will include prevention activities, prehospital care, resuscitation, operative care, critical care, rehabilitation and trauma system design. [Read More...]
» Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)
The Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) is a USA based professional multidisciplinary organization dedicated entirely to motor vehicle crash injury prevention and control. [Read More...]
» Brain Injury Resource Foundation (USA)
The mission of the Brain Injury Resource Foundation (BIRF) is to provide education, advocacy and support for persons affected by brain injury.
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» Brain Trauma Foundation (USA)
Through guideline education, quality improvement and clinical research, the Brain Trauma Foundation (BTF) is improving the care of traumatic brain injury patients from the scene of the injury through the emergency room and intensive care unit to recovery. [Read More...]
» British Trauma Society
The BTS is an active society formed to promote education and research in the care of the injured. The society is multidisciplinary and welcomes members from all specialities involved in the care of trauma patients, including allied healthcare professionals and medical students.
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» Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
Since it was founded in 1946 to help control malaria, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has remained at the forefront of public health efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, workplace hazards, disabilities, and environmental health threats. [Read More...]
» European Trauma Society (ETS)
The main objective of the "European Trauma Society" (ETS) is to guarantee the best standard of care in traumatology in Europe. Apart from promoting training of traumatology at the highest possible level and scientific exchange this should be achieved by setting and recommending standards to the Surgical Boards of the member states, and by encouraging health authorities as well as national and international scientific societies of traumatology to improve the educational and organizational environment for an effective trauma care. [Read More...]
» Harbourview Medical Centre Trauma Unit (USA)
The Trauma/Critical Care Division is based at Harborview Medical Center. The only Level 1 (regional) Trauma Center serving Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho, this clinical arm of Harborview - known as the Northwest Regional Trauma Center - cares for emergency surgical and trauma patients, and is closely linked to the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center. [Read More...]
» Hospital Incident Command System Guidebook (California)
This link to the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) guidebook from the Californian Emergency Medical Services Authority may be useful during the planning phase of disaster management. [Read More...]
» Hospital of the University of Pennslyvania Trauma Division (USA)
The Trauma Center at Penn, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have long been considered a model of trauma and surgical critical care at a national and international level. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation as a Level I, Regional Resource Trauma Center, and most recently acknowledged as a “model program” for the nation. [Read More...]
» Injury Control Resource Information Network
A dynamic list of key Internet accessible resources related to the field of injury research and control. The resources are in the form of annotated clickable hyperlinks to other Internet sources and documents. [Read More...]
» International Committee of the Red Cross (War Surgery section)
The ICRC helps to treat war casualties by providing surgical staff, training local medical staff, developing programmes for pre-hospital first aid and the evacuation and transportation of injured patients, and improving the capacity of Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers to respond to emergency situations. Access to publications on the surgical management of war wounds, and details of surgery and hospital assistance programmes. [Read More...]
» International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society (ITACCS)
International Trauma Care (ITACCS), which also operates under the name Trauma Care International, is the leading international multidisciplinary society dedicated to improving the care of trauma patients. [Read More...]
» Johannesburg Hospital Trauma Unit (South Africa)
The Trauma Unit has an annual patient workload of approximately 20 000 trauma patients per year, including in excess of 2000 admissions and 1700 major resuscitations annually. The Unit is one of two major referral centres in the Johannesburg area, receiving patients from throughout the Province, neighbouring provinces and neighbouring states.
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» National Center for Statistics and Analysis (USA)
NCSA, an office of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), an agency in the United States Department of Transportation is responsible for providing a wide range of analytical and statistical support to NHTSA and the highway safety community at large. [Read More...]
» National Guideline Clearinghouse (USA)
The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. [Read More...]
» National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (USA)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), under the U.S. Department of Transportation, was established by the Highway Safety Act of 1970, as the successor to the National Highway Safety Bureau, to carry out safety programs under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 and the Highway Safety Act of 1966. [Read More...]
» National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) USA
The National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) is the largest aggregation of trauma registry data ever assembled. It contains over one million records from 405 U.S. trauma centers.
The goal of the NTDB is to inform the medical community, the public, and decision makers about a wide variety of issues that characterize the current state of care for injured persons.
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» Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development International Road Traffic and Accident Database
International comparisons of road safety are becoming more and more important. To assess national developments in the area of traffic safety more accurately, it is necessary to view them in an international context. IRTAD offers the framework required for differentiating international evaluations of accident data. [Read More...]
» Panamerican Trauma Society
The Panamerican Trauma Society
seeks to encourage the exchange of knowledge and information between and among physicians, nurses, prehospital providers, and other health care personnel who take care of injured patients in North, Central, and South America. [Read More...]
» Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA)
The Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) has worked to secure health care and benefits for veterans of the armed forces living with spinal cord injury and disease (SCI/D) and funded research into finding care and cure since its founding. [Read More...]
» Parkland Hospital Trauma Centre (USA)
Parkland has been committed to the care of the injured patient since its beginning. In 1988, Parkland became the first verified regional Level I Trauma Center in Texas and in 1996, the Texas Department of Health designated it as a Level I. The medical staff of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas provides the medical leadership for the trauma program.
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» R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Centre (USA)
The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center is regarded as one of the international standard-setters for the care of injury. It's a multidisciplinary clinical, educational and research institution dedicated to both the prevention and management of severe injury and its consequences.
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» SafetyLit
SafetyLit staff and volunteers regularly examine more than 500 journals and scores of reports from government agencies and organizations. The weekly update is posted before 0600 h GMT every Monday morning. Each week SafetyLit online abstracts are read by 41,000 people from 186 nations.
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» Society of Trauma Nurses
The Society of Trauma Nurses is a membership-based, non-profit organization whose members represent trauma nurses from around the world. Members are nurses involved in trauma care in clinical, administrative, research and educational roles. [Read More...]
» The Eastern Association for the Sugery of Trauma (USA)
The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) is a not for profit organization organized to furnish leadership and foster advances in the care of injured patients. [Read More...]
» The Trauma Audit & Research Network (UK)
Developing effective care for injured patients through analysis and dissemination process and outcome. [Read More...]
» Trauma Association of Canada (TAC)
Bringing together the specialists involved in care of the injured patient to promote the highest standard of patient care, education, organization, and research in the field of injury. [Read More...]
» TRAUMA.ORG
TRAUMA.ORG provides global education, information and communication resources for professionals in trauma and critical care. [Read More...]
» U.S. Department of Homeland Securities
Homeland Security leverages resources within Federal, state, and local governments, coordinating the transition of multiple agencies and programs into a single, integrated agency focused on protecting the American people and their homeland. [Read More...]
» WHO - Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention
The World Health Orginisation's Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention works to prevent injuries and violence, to mitigate their consequences, and to enhance the quality of life for persons with disabilities irrespective of the cause. [Read More...]
» World Society of Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
The mission of the World Society of Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (WSACS) is to promote research, foster education, and improve the survival of patients with Intra Abdominal Hypertension (IAH) and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (ACS) by bringing together physicians, nurses, and others from a variety of clinical disciplines to share information on effective management strategies for reducing the significant morbidity and mortality of IAH / ACS. This website is intended to facilitate the goals and mission of the WSACS.
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