Trauma Resuscitation Time at A Tertiary Care Hospital in Oman: A Retrospective Observational Study

Abstract

for the severely injured patient arriving in the Emergency Department [3]." Time is considered an essential determinant in the initial care of trauma patients, as rapid effective trauma resuscitation decreases patient morbidity and mortality. Trauma resuscitation time (TRT) is defi ned as "the time between the actual arrival of the patient into the emergency department trauma bay and the fi nal disposition" [4]. This initial period is directly related to the patients' outcomes and delays might result in preventable deaths [5]. Different retrospective studies have reported different trauma resuscitation time with a median