PMID: 8614029Apr 1, 1996Paper

Evaluation of the medical management and preventability of death in 137 road traffic fatalities in Victoria, Australia: an overview. Consultative Committee on Road Traffic Fatalities in Victoria

The Journal of Trauma
F T McDermottA B Tremayne

Abstract

In 1992 a multidisciplinary committee was established to identify problems in the management of road fatalities in Victoria, Australia, to assess their contribution to death, and to identify preventable deaths (preventable: survival probability more than 75%; potentially preventable: 25 to 75%). For 1992 and 1993 all 137 fatality cases surviving until arrival of ambulance services were evaluated by analysis and discussion of their complete prehospital, hospital, and autopsy records. 1,012 problems were identified in 509 admissions to the various areas of care. Six hundred eighty-five (68%) were management errors and 217 (21%) were system inadequacies. Technique errors (45 (4%)), diagnosis delays (25 (2%)), and diagnosis errors (40 (4%)) were less frequent. The emergency department (ED) accounted for 537 (53%) problems, followed by prehospital (200 (20%)) and intensive care unit (118 (12%)). Four hundred seventy (46%) problems were assessed as contributing to death. Two hundred twenty-eight (49%) occurred in the ED, 90 (19%) were prehospital problems, and 63 (13%) occurred in the intensive care unit. Management errors comprised 326 (69%) problems contributing to death, and system inadequacies 88 (19%). Resuscitation problems acc...Continue Reading

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