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01-12-2014 | Poster presentation
Emergency trauma theatre utilisation – the St George’s Hospital, London experience
Authors:
Alexander J Hills, Alexander Clarke, Christoph EA Hartmann, Caroline B Hing
Published in:
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
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Special Issue 1/2014
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Excerpt
The Royal College of Surgeons of England encouraged the creation of singly dedicated 24-hour emergency theatres in 1997; emergency operating was previously largely determined by theatre availability rather than clinical need. Shortly after this St George’s Hospital, London designated one of its three trauma theatres as an ‘Acute Emergency Theatre’ (AET) and implemented a policy to maintain access to the AET within one hour’s notification for all acute trauma emergencies. …