Background Geriatric patients are at increased risk of injury following low-energy
mechanisms and are less tolerant of injury. Current criteria for trauma team activation (TTA) …

Background Elderly patients are frequently undertriaged. However, the associations
between triage patterns and outcomes from a population perspective are unknown. We …

Background Injured older adults often receive delayed care in the emergency department
(ED) because they do not meet criteria for trauma team activation (TTA). This is particularly …

Caring for older people is an important part of prehospital practice, including appropriate
triage and transportation decisions. However, prehospital triage criteria are designed to …

Introduction The interaction of increasing age, Injury Severity Score (ISS), and complications
is not well described in geriatric trauma patients. We hypothesized that failure to rescue rate …

EPIDEMIOLOGY Trauma is considered a young person's disease, but the aging of the
population is changing that reality. People over 65 are the fastest growing demographic, and …

Background Elderly trauma patients are at risk for undertriage, resulting in substantial
morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to determine whether implementation …

Introduction: In January of 2010, North Carolina (NC) USA implemented state-wide Trauma
Triage Destination Plans (TTDPs) to provide standardized guidelines for Emergency …

OBJECTIVES: The chosen age cutoff for considering patients with trauma to be “elderly” has
ranged from 55 to 80 years in trauma guidelines and studies. The goal of this study was to …

BACKGROUND Older adult trauma is associated with high morbidity and mortality.
Individuals older than 65 years are expected to make up more than 21% of the total …