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  2. Advanced trauma life support - Wikipedia

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    Advanced trauma life support (ATLS) is a training program for medical providers in the management of acute trauma cases, developed by the American College of Surgeons. Similar programs exist for immediate care providers such as paramedics.

  3. Trauma Quality Improvement Program - Wikipedia

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    The Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) was initiated in 2008 by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Its aim is to provide risk-adjusted data for the purpose of reducing variability in adult trauma outcomes and offering best practice guidelines to improve trauma care. TQIP makes use of national data to allows hospitals ...

  4. National Trauma Data Bank - Wikipedia

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    Hospital emergency rooms and other institutions such as trauma centers which are participants submit data and receive in return access to reports analyzing data about both their own operations and trauma medicine in the United States as a whole. [1] Annual reports, an annual report and a pediatric report, which include demographic information ...

  5. List of trauma centers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Adult trauma level Pediatric trauma level University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital: Birmingham: Alabama: 1295: I I Huntsville Hospital & HH for Women & Children: Huntsville: Alabama: 881: I Children’s of Alabama: Birmingham: Alabama: 332: I USA Health University Hospital: Mobile: Alabama: I Alaska Native Medical Center: Anchorage: Alaska ...

  6. National Surgical Quality Improvement Program - Wikipedia

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    The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) was started in the American Veterans Health Administration (VHA). In the mid-1980s the VHA was criticized for their high operative mortality.

  7. James K. Styner - Wikipedia

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    James Kenneth Styner FACS (July 22, 1934 – January 22, 2024) was an American orthopedic surgeon who practiced in Lawndale, California. He was instrumental in the development of the advanced trauma life support (ATLS) program after his experiences in a private airplane crash in rural Nebraska.

  8. Injury Severity Score - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. American College of Surgeons - Wikipedia

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    The college is governed by a Board of Regents, a Board of Governors, and a variety of local ACS Chapters. The Board of Regents formulates policy and directs the affairs of the college. The Board of Governors acts as the liaison between the Board of Regents and the Fellows. The local ACS Chapters exert the college's influence at the community level.