Tag Archives: Trauma

Want to connect directly with OhioHealth Trauma? It’s faster and easier than ever before.

OhioHealth Trauma has partnered with OhioHealth EMS to provide easy access to information about trauma services. Trauma now has a dedicated tab on the OhioHealth EMS website.  You can find information about each of the trauma centers, the services they provide, and how to contact them.

Visit ohiohealthems.com/trauma  or email traumaservices@ohiohealth.com to connect directly with OhioHealth Trauma. We are waiting to hear from you!

Congratulations to Dr. Shay O’Mara, OhioHealth System Chief, Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

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As OhioHealth has grown as a system, we remain committed to trauma care in the communities we serve. Trauma and acute care is such an important part of what we do – serving patients at a critical, vulnerable, time in their lives. That is why we have created a new system role to lead our trauma and acute care surgery across OhioHealth.

Michael (Shay) O’Mara, MD, MBA, FACS will lead that effort as system chief, trauma and acute care surgery for OhioHealth with oversight of trauma and acute care surgery for the OhioHealth system. Dr. O’Mara will continue to serve in his current role as medical director, trauma services, for OhioHealth Grant Medical Center and as a trauma surgeon at Grant and OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital. He will soon receive privileges and participate at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital to help better support their program.

Under Dr. O’Mara’s leadership at Grant, the hospital was re-verified as a Level I Trauma Center in 2015. Grant Level I Trauma is the busiest trauma center in the state with a national reputation of excellence. During Dr. O’Mara’s time as medical director there, the program has experienced expansive growth, with trauma patients now coming from 55 Ohio counties.

Dr. O’Mara has been with OhioHealth since 2012. He came to Columbus from Sutter Medical Center and the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California, where he held several roles including chief, general surgery and medical director, acute care surgery. He completed his residency in general surgery at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital and received his medical degree from the University of Iowa.

Congratulations to Dr. O’Mara.

 

Save the Date: Trauma Care Conference, November 18-19, 2015

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OhioHealth Grant Medical Center presents
2015 Trauma Care Conference

Save the Date
November 18-19, 2015

Providing all participants with cutting edge trauma education
and practical knowledge in order to deliver high quality care to
the patients we serve.

Early registration discount available August 1 – October 18:
www.regonline.com/traumacare2015_1728942

Download and Share the 2015 Trauma Care Conference Save the Date

OhioHealth Grant Medical Center Re-Verified as a Level I Trauma Center!

IMG_0037.JPGWe are proud to share with you that OhioHealth Grant Medical Center has been re-verified as a Level I Trauma Center by the Verification Review Committee (VRC), an ad hoc committee of the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Level I re-verification means we continue to provide the highest quality of surgical care to trauma patients. A variety of criteria must be met to be verified, including having specialized surgeons on-call and in the hospital around the clock, a helipad to transport patients, physicians and nurses specially trained in trauma care, state-of-the-art diagnostic and testing equipment, providing injury prevention programs in the community and conducting research in an effort to improve trauma care in the state and across the nation. The VRC of the ACS has awarded Grant its certificate of verification every three years since 1993. Grant Level I Trauma is one of the most active and fastest growing trauma centers in central Ohio, providing a full range of care to thousands of seriously injured patients regardless of severity or complexity.

Ohio EMS Trauma Triage Changes

From the Ohio Division of EMS:
Changes to Ohio’s Trauma Triage Criteria for EMS
December 2014

 
The following changes have been made to the Ohio Trauma Triage Criteria for EMS personnel:

Physiologic
“Needs intubation“ has been modified to “Need for ventilatory support”
o Adults and geriatrics
o EMSIRS field value 9910 (no change to code, only wording)

“Respiratory rate less than 20 in infants less than 1 year old” added
o Pediatrics
o EMSIRS field value 9912

Anatomic
“Open skull fracture” added
o All age groups
o EMSIRS field value 9983

Mechanism
“Vehicle telemetry data consistent with high risk of injury” added
o All age groups
o EMSIRS field value 9997

These changes are now in effect.

Any questions, comments or concerns should be directed to:

Tim Erskine
Chief of Trauma Systems and Research
terskine@dps.ohio.gov
614-387-1951
800-233-0785

Attachments:
ODEMS Trauma Triage Update 2014-12
ODEMS Trauma Triage Decision Tree 2014-12

Saving Lives on the Battlefield: Final Report

A Joint Trauma System Review of Pre-Hospital Trauma Care
in Combined Joint Operating Area – Afghanistan (CJOA-A)
FINAL REPORT is now available at:

http://rdcr.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/CENTCOM-Prehospital-Final-Report-130130.pdf

It’s a detailed look at military pre-hospital trauma care by the U.S. Central Command. Civilian EMS is many times a recipient of military knowledge and technology innovation. There are elements of this report that may affect how we care for our patients in the future.

Congratulations to Dr O'Mara, Medical Director, OhioHealth Grant Medical Center Trauma Program

From Vinson Yates, President, OhioHealth Grant Medical Center

I am pleased to announce that Michael Shay O’Mara, MD, MBA, FACS, has been named medical director of the OhioHealth Grant Medical Center Trauma Program. Dr. O’Mara has been serving as the interim medical director of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Grant since March 2013. Previously, he served as associate medical director of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Prior to joining OhioHealth, Dr. O’Mara was the medical director of the Acute Care Surgery Medical Group in Sacramento, California. Dr. O’Mara received his MD from the University of Iowa and his MBA from Auburn University. He completed his residency in general surgery at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital and a fellowship in critical care and trauma at the University of California Davis Medical Center. He is board certified in Surgery and Surgical Critical Care and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In his role as medical director of Grant’s Trauma Program, Dr. O’Mara will have oversight for all clinical and strategic operations related to trauma services at Grant, including community outreach, research, education, prevention, and maintenance of the Level I trauma verification. Please join me in congratulating Dr. O’Mara on his new role.