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.
