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

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

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.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Life Support Systems / standards
  • Trauma Centers / organization & administration*
  • Trauma Centers / standards*
  • Trauma Severity Indices
  • Wounds and Injuries / diagnosis
  • Wounds and Injuries / therapy