Why Trauma Specialists, LLP?
By 1995, the trauma patient volume had grown to 2000 patients per year. Several specialty groups (general surgery, orthopedics, head and neck surgeons) had hired surgeons who wanted only to focus on patients with traumatic injuries. Anesthesia (OAG) and radiology also added additional members to help with the workload. Trauma physicians and surgeons took pride in what they helped to create, liked the recognition from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, and depended on the trauma program financially.
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How do I contact Trauma Specialists, LLP?
Contact information is available on Trauma Specialists, LLP's Contact page.

What is a "Golden Hour"?
Dr. R Adams Cowley is known as the Father of Modern Trauma Surgery. After being trained as an open heart surgeon, he knew that the lives of trauma patients bleeding profusely from wounds could only be saved in an operating room, in a Shock Trauma Center.1 Dr. R Adams Cowley had clearly identified a goal for his life, "I want to save the lives of injured Americans."
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What is The National Trauma Data Bank® (NTDB) and what is its purpose?
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 in our country. The information contained in the data bank has implications in many areas including epidemiology, injury control, research, education, acute care, and resource allocation.

The effort to collect and maintain traumatic injury data is in keeping with the mission of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma (COT), which is "To improve the care of the injured through systematic efforts in prevention, care, and rehabilitation."
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What is a Level I Trauma Center?
A verified Level I Trauma Center is a regional resource trauma center that is a tertiary care facility central to the trauma care system. Ultimately, all patients who require the resources of the Verified Level I center should have access to it. This facility must have the capability of providing leadership and total care for every aspect of injury, from prevention-rehabilitation. In it's central role the Level I center must have adequate depth of resources and personnel.

In addition to acute care responsibilities, Level I trauma centers have the major responsibility in providing care, education, research, system planning.This responsibility extends to all hospitals caring for injured patients in their regions.

For more infomation on what is required to become a Level I Trauma Center please visit the American College of Surgeons website.

What is PHTLS?
Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is an intensive two-day multidisciplinary course for those who provide frontline trauma care. It is internationally recognized and was developed by the PHTLS division of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) in co-operation with the committee on trauma of the American College of Surgeons.