A study involving 16 South American hospitals has shown that a program developed at Harborview Medical Center to promote guideline adherence can improve care of children with severe traumatic brain injury.
The study appeared March 27 in the journal Critical Care Medicine.
“The lesson here is this approach can be adapted for and adopted by hospitals that are not Level I Trauma Centers, be they in South America, Asia, Europe or the U.S.,” said first author Dr. Monica Vavilala, professor of anesthesiology, pain medicine and of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine.