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Emergency - trauma center
The Töölö Hospital Emergency, which has been known from an early stage as the Trauma Center, is an around the clock emergency centre that serves 1.4 million residents in the Helsinki and Uusimaa district and is functionally a coalition of the hospital’s specialised fields.
The emergency specialised hospital care covers the fields of orthopedics and traumatology, neurosurgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, hand surgery and plastic surgery. Patients are referred from other hospital districts especially for neurosurgery, plastic and hand surgery, and for the treatment of the most difficult orthopedic and traumatological problems.
About 18,000 patients are treated at the Trauma Center annually. About 1,200 of those patients are treated in the first aid room at the Trauma Center, i.e. on average three patients per day. Well over 100 patients with multiple injuries are treated per year. Burn patients are referred to plastic surgery for a consultation, and after first aid they are referred to the Burn Intensive Care Unit for further treatment.
Functions of the Trauma Center are to give the disaster emergency alarm to hospitals in the Helsinki and Uusimaa district and to be the main reception point of accident patients under the jurisdiction of HUS's Chief Medical Officer.
At the Trauma Center, the treatment of patients, who have suddenly taken ill, requires professionalism in a broad spectrum of fields. Independent decision-making skills, situation sensitivity and exceptional stress tolerance, in quickly changing and psychosocially demanding situations dealing with severely injured patients and the people close to them, are required for dynamically changing situations. The development of the trauma team’s performance in the first aid room needs special attention.