DHART (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team)

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Patient Packaging

  • Secure airway if possible
  • Trauma patients require full spinal immobilization
  • Initiate two large bore IVs
  • Insert foley catheter if appropriate
  • Insert Nasogastric tube (Orogastric tube if head injured) on patients who have an altered level of consciousness, abdominal trauma, or multi-system trauma

INFORMATION REQUIRED

INTERHOSPITAL FLIGHTS:

  • Copy of medical records
  • Pertinent laboratory and diagnostic data
  • Copy of all radiographs
  • Pre-hospital records

SCENE FLIGHTS

  • Patient Identification and DOB
  • Mechanism of injury
  • Rate of deceleration if pertinent and structural damage noted
  • Restraint utilization?
  • ETOH?
  • Injuries noted
  • Medical history, medication and allergy history if known