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Trauma Care Checklist

The WHO Trauma Care Checklist is designed to ensure key life-saving elements of initial trauma care are not missed. It reviews actions at two critical points: immediately after initial assessment surveys, and before leaving the patient. If injury death rates in low- and middle-income countries matched rates in high-income countries, nearly 2 million lives could be saved annually. The checklist provides a systematic approach that can be adapted to local contexts.

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Trauma Care Checklist

The WHO Trauma Care Checklist is designed to ensure key life-saving elements of initial trauma care are not missed. It reviews actions at two critical points: immediately after initial assessment surveys, and before leaving the patient. If injury death rates in low- and middle-income countries matched rates in high-income countries, nearly 2 million lives could be saved annually. The checklist provides a systematic approach that can be adapted to local contexts.

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The WHO Trauma Care Checklist

Injury kills more people every year than HIV, TB and malaria
combined, and the overwhelming majority of these deaths occur
in low- and middle-income countries.

Timely emergency care saves lives: if fatality rates from


severe injury were the same in low- and middle-income
countries as in high-income countries, nearly 2 million
lives could be saved every year.

The WHO Trauma Care Checklist is a simple tool designed for


use in emergency units that emphasizes the key life-saving
elements of initial trauma care.

A systematic approach to every injured person ensures


that life-saving interventions are performed and that no
life-threatening conditions are missed.

The checklist reviews key actions at two critical points:


1. Immediately after the primary & secondary surveys
2. Before the team leaves the patients bedside

Developed and validated by a large global collaboration,


the WHO Trauma Care Checklist is appropriate for use in
any emergency care setting and can be easily adapted to
local context.

Department for Management of NCDs, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention


World Health Organization |Avenue Appia 20 | 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[email protected]

Trauma Care Checklist


Immediately after primary & secondary surveys:
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May be needed if:
GCS 8 or below
Hypoxaemia or hypercarbia
Face, neck, chest or any severe trauma

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Before team leaves patient:


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