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NAVICENT HEALTH PHYSICIAN GROUP
Trauma Centers Save Lives
ecent research conducted in trauma centers providing
the broadest spectrum and
R part by physicians at Navicent subspecialties of surgery and
Health and Mercer University critical care. The Medical
– shows that proximity to one Center, Navicent Health,
of Georgia’s trauma centers a level I trauma center,
increases a patient’s chances of survival provides trauma care for
when critical injuries occur. Researchers approximately 30 central and
reviewed the cases of more than 188,000 south Georgia counties, or
patients between 2008 and 2012 with the an estimated population of
purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of 750,000.
trauma care provided at Georgia trauma
centers. “This is Georgia’s first
attempt to analyze the
“Our research has shown that a critically effectiveness of our trauma
injured patient has a 10 percent increase in system statewide. Although
the probability of survival when treated at national data has proven that
one of Georgia’s trauma centers, compared trauma centers save lives, we
to those treated at non-trauma centers,” now have Georgia-specific
said Dr. Dennis Ashley, Director of Trauma data that proves this point.
and Critical Care for The Medical Center, Our state’s investment in
Navicent Health, Chair of the Department trauma care is saving lives,”
of Surgery for Mercer University School said Dr. Ashley.
of Medicine and Chair of the Georgia
Trauma Care Network Commission. Dr. Ashley presented the
results of the research at the
The research team consisted of physicians American Association for the
and clinicians from Navicent Health and Surgery of Trauma’s national
Mercer University in Macon, Augusta meeting in September 2014,
University (formerly Georgia Regents and the results of the study
University) in Augusta, Emory University were published in the April
in Atlanta and the University of South 2015 issue of the Journal of
Florida in Tampa. Further support was Trauma.
provided by the Office of Emergency
Medical Services and Trauma at the
Georgia Department of Public Health.
Georgia’s trauma centers are divided into
four levels of classification with Level I
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