{"pk":16928,"title":"Surgeons’ and Emergency Physicians’ Perceptions of Trauma Management and Training","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Objective: The study objective was to determine whether surgeons and emergency medicine physicians (EMPs) have differing opinions on trauma residency training and trauma management in clinical practice.\n\n\nMethods: A survey was mailed to 250 EMPs and 250 surgeons randomly selected.\n\n\nResults: Fifty percent of surgeons perceived that surgery exclusively managed trauma compared to 27% of EMPs. Surgeons were more likely to feel that only surgeons should manage trauma on presentation to the ED. However, only 60% of surgeons currently felt comfortable with caring for the trauma patient, compared to 84% of EMPs. Compared to EMPs, surgeons are less likely to feel that EMPs can initially manage the trauma patient (71% of surgeons vs. 92% of EMPs).\n\n\nConclusion: EMPs are comfortable managing trauma while many surgeons do not feel comfortable with the complex trauma patient although the majority of surgeons responded that surgeons should manage the trauma.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2009;10:144-149.]","language":"en","license":{"name":"none","short_name":"none","text":"","url":"http://google.com"},"keywords":[{"word":"Trauma"},{"word":"residency training"},{"word":"Emergency Medicine"},{"word":"Surgery"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6072g3h3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Robin","middle_name":"R","last_name":"Hemphill","name_suffix":"","institution":"Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Nashville, TN","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Sally","middle_name":"A","last_name":"Santen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Nashville, TN","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Benjamin","middle_name":"S","last_name":"Heavrin","name_suffix":"","institution":"Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Nashville, TN","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-11-17T08:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2008-11-17T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2009-08-01T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16928/galley/8569/download/"}]}