Acknowledgement: Luz Silverio, MD, who provided content review and editing assistance.
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ACEP Now: Vol 42 – No 10 – October 2023References
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One Response to “Traumatizing Patients with Trauma Activations”
October 22, 2023
James DunleavyI’ve struggled with this for a long time. As a resident, I often did not feel empowered to hit the brakes on our entire trauma team and experienced quite a bit of distress in failing to do so. I suspect the ratio of true “‘not possible to obtain such consent'” encounters to total trauma activations would strongly support our apprehensions about needlessly worsening the experience of being a trauma patient. Thanks for bringing the issue to the forefront!