Preventable trauma deaths in Kasr El Aini and one general hospital

ABSTRACT

The preventable death rate is defined as the proportion of all deaths judged to have been preventable if optimal care had been delivered. Trauma death studies act as a medical audit quality of trauma care provided to the public and serve the purpose of analyzing how trauma system is functioning. This study is a trial to identify errors and how much they affect the mortality rate hoping to avoid them, hoping to diminish the mortality rate of severely injured trauma patient. In 6 months study done in two hospital Kasr El-Aini University Hospital and El-Fayoum General Hospital for 55 multiple and severely injured trauma patients, using the clinical method for detection of preventable trauma death, 17 preventable trauma deaths were accurately analyzed and the errors were classified into prehospital [31%] immediate resuscitative [23.5%] management [operative [45%] and criteria care phase errors [18.5%]