Prehospitale triage bij traumapatiënten: Ambulancezorg en inzet van mobiel medisch team

Abstract

The prehospital trauma triage system consisting of regional ambulance services and overarching availability of mobile medical teams, the level criteria for trauma centres and inhospital care for trauma patients are wellorganised in the Netherlands. However, the quality of prehospital triage in the Netherlands is inadequate at the moment, with an average undertriage rate of more than 30%. There is, thus, much room for improvement in the quality of prehospital triage. Research in this area is now taking off, partly because of the arrival of a new quality indicator from the Netherlands National Health Care Institute, which states that at least 90% of multipletrauma patients should be primarily taken to a level 1 trauma centre.