Severe trauma poses a potential risk to a patient’s survival, and prompt intervention is crucial to saving lives and ensuring the success of the procedure.
The network of hospital facilities (Trauma Network) that treat and stabilize critically ill trauma patients in the first hours is organized into three levels of complexity:
- trauma emergency departments (PST);
- local trauma centers (CTZ);
- highly specialized trauma centers (CTS).
These facilities are organized in a “hub and spoke” network model, which involves concentrating the most complex cases in a limited number of specialized centers (hubs), which operate in an integrated manner with peripheral centers (spokes), intended for widespread care throughout the territory, the initiation of lifesaving therapies and the care of minor cases.