Introduction
TraumaONE, a division of Orthopaedics Northeast (ONE), helps patients during the critical time after a serious injury. TraumaONE works in conjunction with Parkview's Level Two Trauma Center, providing rapid evaluation and highly specialized treatment for patients with life- or limb-threatening injuries.
Trauma is an injury caused by a physical force. Trauma is often the consequence of motor vehicle collisions, falls, drowning, gunfire, burns or blunt assaults. Trauma is one of the nation's most serious health problems, and is the number-one killer of persons under the age of 40 in the United States. Fortunately, a specialized medical focus is available.
TraumaONE covers Parkview Hospital's orthopaedic trauma 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through a fellowship trained Orthopaedic Traumatologist, as well as other orthopaedic surgeons, physician assistants, and support personnel. Other members of the Parkview Trauma team include EMTs, paramedics, firefighters and police officers first at the scene, and the Samaritan helicopter flight crew. This team approach to trauma care provides protection against premature death or prolonged disability. TraumaONE is working with the community to provide coverage and response that is nationally recognized.
Parkview Hospital Level II Trauma Center Parkview Hospital is a Level II Trauma Center. In 2000 the hospital received national verification by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the organization based in Chicago that provides trauma center verification nationally. The Parkview Hospital Level II Trauma Center works closely with community hospitals such as Parkview Noble Hospital in Kendallville in providing emergency trauma care for severely injured people.
Achieving formal verification confirms that people severely injured who are transferred to Parkview Hospital receive care that meets the highest national standards developed for trauma centers. Parkview Hospital is the only Level II Trauma Center in Indiana.
What is Trauma?
Trauma is an injury caused by a physical force. Trauma is often the result of motor vehicle crashes, falls, drowning, gunshots, fires and burns, stabbing, or blunt assaults.
Trauma is the leading cause of death among people 40 and under-more than any other disease or illness. Nearly 100,000 people of all ages in the United States die from trauma each year-roughly half of them in automobile crashes. Children and young adults feel the greatest impact of trauma. According to the national Center for Heath Statistics, trauma (unintentional injuries + homicides) causes:
- 43% of all deaths from age 1 to 4
- 48% of all deaths in ages 5 to 14
- 62% of all deaths in ages 15 to 24
Trauma can strike at any time of the day. Each year, eight to nine million individuals suffer disabling injuries in the United States, with more than 3,000,000 of the suffering permanent disabilities.
History
Trauma care is a concept that was born from the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Response time improved dramatically from World War I to the Korean and Vietnam wars, and so did survival rates. Helicopters run by trained paramedics brought the emergency department to the victim and then transported them to Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) units. Civilian resources in the 1960s were primitive by comparison to military emergency medial capabilities, as more people were dying on U.S. streets than in the war. Even today, the number of people killed in motor vehicle crashes each year exceeds that of the total number of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam conflict. There was great potential in bringing military medicine home.
In 1966, the National Academy of Sciences and National Resource Council published a report that characterized trauma as "the neglected disease of modern society." The report recommended that a national trauma association be developed to help reduce trauma's toll, by pooling efforts of professional and lay organizations to stimulate public and professional education and community service.
In response to this key recommendation, the American Trauma Society was founded in 1968. It is endorsed by the American College of Surgeons, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the National Safety Council, the American Medical Association, and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
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