Management of Traumatic Scene Incidents

Management of Traumatic Scene Incidents
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Management of Traumatic Scene Incidents
High-risk environments, like scenes of traumatic incidences, require effective communication strategies, coordination, collaboration, cooperation, and understanding to ensure patient safety and effective care and prevent healthcare errors. Problems in shared activities in patient management in a traumatic scene, including communication errors, ineffective leadership, and poor work organization, cause medication errors that hinder patient safety. Nevertheless, the inter-professional care team should consider the laws of physics that govern movements, injury pattern recognition, and mechanism of injury when helping trauma victims. This paper discusses the concepts related to the assessment and management of traumatic incidences, including communication, mechanism of injury, and coordination.
Communication and Collaborative Working Aspects
The inter-professional team in the traumatic incident scene should consider every contribution of team members. Traumatic incidents in the UK, like the Grenfell Tower fire, reflected the need for collaboration, coordination, and effective communication in emergency services when managing such incidents (Davidson et al. 2022). The team members, including the police, fire, and ambulance personnel, should respectfully interact with understanding and good communication since communication failure between them can endanger patient safety (Courtenay, Nancarrow, & Dawson 2013). They should reflect a crucial aspect of clear communication when managing the patient in a traumatic incident and effectively coordinate and cooperate to ensure the patient’s safety. For instance, they should communicate clearly regarding the patient’s injuries, the priority for care in the triage category, and the patient’s vital signs. Effective communication enhances situation awareness regarding the traumatic incident, and closed-loop communication helps share any information, such as abnormal concerns from the traumatic incident (Kostiuk & Burns 2020). Consequently, comprehensive details concerning the traumatic scene and victim enhance effective patient care.
In addition, leadership is a vital aspect needed in collaborative working on the scene of a traumatic incident. Courtenay, Nancarrow, and Dawson (2013) explained that effective leadership enhances good team function in a traumatic scene since the leaders are responsible for directing the team activities when managing the incident. The leader enhances team organization by effectively coordinating the team members’ roles while conveying collaborative decisions about the traumatic incident. For instance, an incident commander can lead the other team members in a traumatic incident. The team leader should make timely contact with the police and fire and ambulance personnel to enhance situation awareness and jointly decide how to resolve the traumatic scene in a timely and coordinated way (National Ambulance Resilience Unit 2015). Additionally, the team leader assigns specific tasks while updating the team members on changes and new findings regarding t...