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The Royal London Hospital is the busiest trauma centre in the UK, with Barts and the London NHS Trust as a whole treating over 1,500 injury patients daily across its five hospitals. [ 29 ] The Queen Mary University of London Centre for Trauma Sciences, part of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry , has a strong clinical ...
A major trauma centre (MTC) is a specialist unit within the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, set up to provide specialised trauma care and rehabilitation. They are usually found within larger hospitals in major cities which have the necessary infrastructure and staff to deal with major trauma cases.
Persons with major trauma commonly have chest and pelvic x-rays taken, [6] and, depending on the mechanism of injury and presentation, a focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) exam to check for internal bleeding. For those with relatively stable blood pressure, heart rate, and sufficient oxygenation, CT scans are useful. [6] [25 ...
The Northern General Hospital is a large teaching hospital and Major Trauma Centre in Sheffield, England. Its departments include accident and emergency for adults, with children being treated at the Sheffield Children's Hospital on Western Bank. The hospital is managed by the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Injury Severity Score (ISS) is an established medical score to assess trauma severity. [1] [2] It correlates with mortality, morbidity and hospitalization time after trauma. It is used to define the term major trauma. A major trauma (or polytrauma) is defined as the Injury Severity Score being greater than 15. [2]
Karim Hassan Brohi FRCS FRCA (born 28 August 1968) is a British surgeon who is currently the clinical director of the London Major Trauma Network, [2] Professor of Trauma Sciences at Queen Mary University of London [3] and a Consultant vascular and trauma surgeon for Barts Health NHS Trust at the Royal London Hospital.
In January 2018, it was announced that a major trauma centre, complete with a rooftop helipad, would be built at the Salford Royal Hospital at a cost of £48 million. [13] It is intended that 90 per cent of all major trauma patients in the Greater Manchester area will be treated there once it is completed. [13]
There were 361,216 cancer diagnoses in 2014 in the United Kingdom. [19] Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK (around 56,000 women and 375 men are diagnosed with the disease every year). [20] Cancer Research UK estimates that 15% of UK cancers are caused by smoking, [21] and 3-4% of UK cancers are related to alcohol consumption. [22]