Trauma team

Overview
A Trauma team is a group of healthcare workers who attend to seriously ill or injured casualties who arrive at a hospital emergency department. The team is composed of a number of specific roles, with a typical team consisting of:


 * Team Leader - Trauma Surgeon, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Emergency Medicine Physician, or Anesthesiologist doctor who takes command
 * Additionally: An Emergency Medicine Physician (optional)
 * Additionally: Anesthesiologist


 * Respiratory Therapist (Canada/USA)
 * Three nurses
 * Radiographer
 * Scribe - a nurse or doctor who deals with administration

Other specialities can be added depending on the nature of the injury, for example a neurological surgeon will attend if there is a serious head injury. All staff should be trained in Advanced Trauma Life Support techniques. Each hospital will have a list of criteria that require the activation of the trauma team, such as a fall of over 6 meters or a fracture of 2 or more bones.