Anesthesiologists are involved: Anesthesiologists are involved

Anesthesiologists are involved:

• Anesthesiologists are involved:

• beginning with airway and resuscitation management in the emergency department (ED) and proceeding through the operating room (OR) to the intensive care unit (lCU).

• Critical care and pain management specialists see trauma patients as a large fraction of their practice.

• in European practice anesthesiologist working in the prehospital environment, as an ED director, or as leader of a hospital's trauma team.

• The presence of an experienced anesthesiologist and the immediate availability of an open OR are both core resource standards for accreditation of a "level 1" trauma center.