Program Features

Incident details

Transport and response times

Emergency Unit admission

Trauma teams with response times

GCS and RTS calculations

Airway/IV/Drug management

Probability of Survival (initial scene and Emergency Unit arrival), based on both ISS and NISS scores

Emergency Unit Procedures performed (diagnostic and therapeutic)

ICD10 information (incident, diagnosis and complications)

Hospital Outcome information

IT HAD TO BE QUICK AND EASY TO USE: Speed of entry was critical. Some hospitals that tested the program see up to 30 trauma patients per weekend. This data had to be captured quickly and be available for review by Monday. Thanks to TraumaBank this is now possible. Capturing a single patient record now takes anything from 5 to 15 minutes depending on the complexity of the case and whether basic data or comprehensive data is entered. The program is very flexible allowing a hospital to exclude whichever fields they would not want to capture.

THE PROGRAM SHOULD EXECUTE QUICKLY: A big concern was whether after investing many man hours entering data, the program would slow down and gradually become unusable. TraumaBank was written and rewritten to ensure fast execution. The program has been tested at a large hospital for 36 months. The hospital handled over 5000 cases in that time. The speed of entry and program execution had not changed at all comparing the first patient entry to the 5000th.

THE PROGRAM HAD TO BE FLEXIBLE: Allowing for future updates in trauma management to be incorporated seemlessly. TraumaBank meets this criteria.

POWERFUL AND QUICK REPORTING MODULE: Any program without a strong reporting module isn't worth the disk space. TraumaBank excels in this department. Complex reports can be generated in under 10 seconds. For example TraumaBank can find which of 5000 patients required endotracheal intubation in the Emergency Unit and display a 130 page report in under 10 seconds!! Over 35 prewritten reports ship with the current version and custom reports can also be designed. Reports are printed using 2 dates which are entered at run time. The FROM date and the TO date indicate which date range to print between. The reports all print info such as Hospital number, Name, Arrival date, ISS, NISS, Probability of Survival; some print all injuries, GCS, RTS, disposition, discharge service and lots more depending on the report.

Patients with a Probability of Survival greater than 50% who died

Individual patient report (entire comprehensive patient record printout)

Patients requiring ventilation

Search on a specific incident

Units of blood ordered

Days spent in hospital and ICU

Complication reports either identifying all complications occuring within a specified time, or allowing you to search for specific complications.

Patients arriving by helicopter

Injury to hospital time

Time patients spent in the Emergency Unit

Emergency Unit patients with BP less than 90 who went to theatre

General Emergency Unit disposition

Identification of cases where there was a delay in resus activation

Total cost of injuries

Specific consultant/registrar report giving a printout of all patients seen by that doctor

Custom Queries can now be generated and the data Exported to Excel or a custom report generated.

Most fields in TraumaBank are lookup fields. For example in the Incident Section a pre-entered lookup list will display when incident is selected. Make your selection from the list or insert a new incident. Your new incident will then be added to the list for future selection. Add your specific doctors, suburbs and any other fields you may want the program to remember and the program will store your new data for quick easy data entry.

All the AIS90 injuries with injury severity scores have been pre-entered into TraumaBank. A multitag screen means that when your list of injuries is displayed you simply lookup the injuries by typing the first letter of the body region sought, tag the injury with the F4 key and continue your search. When all injuries have been selected, accept your selections and all the injuries with injury severity scores are added to your patient's record immediately all at once. This is a huge time saving compared to some programs that force you to pick one injury at a time through a multitude of screens.

All ICD10 incident and diagnosis codes are available for selection. Again this works on a multitag basis for quick efficient lookups.

Drugs used, emergency room procedures, diagnostic investigations and many other fields also work on a multitag basis so after you get a little practice entering data you will find the program design works with you allowing fast error free data input.

(RIGHT Click on the glasses icon then select "Open Link In New Window" to view examples)

All users of TraumaBank will receive TraumaBank data collection forms. The forms are designed as resuscitation documentation and are layed out in the same order as the TraumaBank fields to facilitate data entry.

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