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Discretionary Hillsborough County Non-Trauma Alert Elder Gray-Area Criteria

Purpose: To identify "at-risk" older/geriatric trauma patients who might benefit from a trauma center

First check to see if your older trauma patient already meets trauma alert criteria and call an alert as appropriate.

If not a trauma alert, but patient is 65 years or older, consider transporting that individual to a trauma center if one or more of the following conditions are satisfied:

Mechanism of injury:
Burns

Motor vehicle collision associated with:

Rapid deceleration of automobile (> 35 mph)
Pedestrian
Bicycle
Golf cart
Motorcycle
Unrestrained vehicle occupant
Significant passenger space invasion
Prolonged extrication greater than 20 minutes
Significant vehicular damage
Rollover
Fatality (other occupant)

Injuries associated with an above mechanism:

Evidence of chest or pelvic trauma

Other events associated w/high-energy dissipation:

Fall (> ground level)
Blast

Traumatic injury and currently taking:

Anticoagulants and blood thinners
Cardiac medications such as beta blockers and antiarrhythmics
Diabetic medications

Traumatic injury and medical history of:

Cardiac
CHF
COPD
Paralysis
Dementia
Recent surgery
Organ transplant
Diabetes

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY TRAUMA AGENCY

Telephone: 813.276.2051 • Fax: 813.272.5346
http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/traumaagency/

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