Achieving Zero Preventable Deaths – Creating a National Trauma Care System

Trauma remains a leading cause of death in the United States despite advances in prehospital and in-hospital care over the last half-century. In 2016, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) released A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury, which proposed a vision for a national trauma system that would reduce deaths from injury on highways, on the battlefield and in any setting.

The panel discusses the findings of the NASEM report and the role of EMS in achieving its vision, the results of a collaborative conference held in April to discuss implementation of the report’s recommendations, the role of the military in the nation’s trauma systems and how EMS systems can use data to measure and improve care for trauma victims.

Presenters:

Ronald Stewart, MD, Chair of the Committee on Trauma for the American College of Surgeons
Col. (ret.) John Holcomb, MD, Director of the Memorial Hermann Texas Trauma Institute
Cathy Gotschall, ScD, Senior Health Scientist with the NHTSA Office of EMS