trauma alert
Critical injury announcement
A trauma alert is a hospital protocol activated when a patient arrives with severe, life-threatening injuries—typically from car accidents, gunshot wounds, falls, or similar incidents.
The alert mobilizes a specialized team of surgeons, nurses, and technicians to the emergency department before the patient arrives: The dispatcher called a trauma alert for a multi-vehicle collision on the highway.
The term also refers to the patient themselves: We have a trauma alert coming in by helicopter.
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- codeSymbolic communication system
- rapid responseFast action to emergencies
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- emergency roomHospital crisis department
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- emergency medicalemergency room, ambulance, EMS, ER, EMT
- Emergency Codesfull code, 911, 999, SOS, cardiac arrest
trauma alertstable patient
Person whose condition holds
outpatient visit · stable condition · all clear · ambulatory care · walking wounded
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