Presentation

Parc Taulí is a reference center with high specialization in polytrauma patients in Catalonia.

Parc Taulí is a center of reference for the transfer of polytrauma patients, both forprehospital care as for polytrauma patients admitted to other centers hospitals that require treatments that exceed their possibilities.

The services and areas involved in the care of these patients are: Anaesthesiology, Reanimation and Pain Treatment; Angiology and Vascular Surgery; General and Digestive Surgery; Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology; Pediatric Surgery; Diagnostic Imaging; Pharmacy; Hematology and Hemotherapy (Blood Bank); Nursery; Intensive Medicine; Neurosurgery; Emergencies; Pediatric Medicine; Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

annually, occur more than 1.000 activations of the PPT code in Parc Taulí. Of all the activations, between 120 and 140 patients per year will be of considerable severity requiring admission to the critical care area. In this group of more serious patients, sequelae appear in 25-30% of them and a mortality rate of between 6 and 10% has been identified, depending on the year.

 

Responsible for Polytrauma Patient Care

Salvador Navarro Soto