Trauma Reception and Resuscitation System (TR&R)
Providing life-saving decision support to hospital trauma teams.
Stabilising a patient within a trauma bay places immense pressure on trauma bay staff.
The Alfred Trauma Service is the largest and most active trauma service in the southern hemisphere. For each patient, any missed step or piece of information in the trauma bay could mean death, and in the first 30 minutes of arriving at the Trauma Centre every moment counts. Staff are highly trained and experienced to deal with situations like this, following procedures and processes. Even so, with multiple staff, highly stressful environments and the pressure to stabilise patients, sometimes errors do occur. These are errors of omission – where a step or process is left out.
“The TR&R has entrenched The Alfred Hospital’s goal of error-free resuscitation in the treatment and management of trauma patients. We have observed a 21% reduction in errors of omission, 30% reduction in blood transfusions, and significant reductions in the time spent in ICU.” Professor Mark Fitzgerald, Director of Trauma Services – The Alfred Hospital
The TR&R system is currently operational in every trauma bay at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, and has been implemented in major trauma centres in China, India, Saudi Arabia, and Ireland.