Activate Trauma Alert by dialing x8888 and saying "I would like to activate a Category I Trauma in the Emergency Department. " (IF PEDIATRIC, SPECIFICY THAT: "PEDIATRIC CATEGORY I TRAUMA in the ED.")

• Write down the time that it is announced overhead. 

Call Trauma Surgeon (you will call them on their cell phone IMMEDIATELY,  you don't wait for the doc to tell you to call)

• When you call the surgeon, CALL THEIR CELL PHONE immediately, DON'T PERFECT SERVE THEM!

  • Click here for the Rolodex

• Write down the time you call them

• For later: you will need to know when the surgeon arrives.

You will need to grab a PT sticker for the Trauma Alert Binder

Write Down pt's Arrival Time (Look on facesheet, then "REG DATE" towards the bottom, shows you the time they were registered.)

Chart all alert details in Special Charting & Special Comments. 

Once the patient is discharged, you will scan in the Trauma Papers that the nurse fills out. 

• • Once the Nurse's Trauma papers are scanned in by you into the "Emergency Room Record" Section, make a copy of all 3 sheets and put the ORIGINAL in the medical records, and put the COPY in Candi's mailbox.