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Review
. 2008;12(5):224.
doi: 10.1186/cc6980. Epub 2008 Sep 10.

Pro/con debate: is the scoop and run approach the best approach to trauma services organization?

Barbara Haas  1 , Avery B Nathens
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Review

Pro/con debate: is the scoop and run approach the best approach to trauma services organization?

Barbara Haas et al. Crit Care. 2008.

Abstract

You are asked to be involved in organizing a trauma service for a major urban center. You are asked to make a decision on whether the services general approach to trauma in the city (which does have a well-established trauma center) will be scoop and run (minimal resuscitation at the scene with a goal to getting the patient to a trauma center as quickly as possible) or on-the-scene resuscitation with transfer following some degree of stabilization.

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