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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: The Trauma Handover with Andrew Pearce
Description: In this session I am speaking with Andrew Pearce on the concept of the trauma handover. We examine the definition of the handover, the commonly expected barriers to effective handover, and the recall of handover information. We will also examine where the handover occurs, standards and recommendations, tools and templates, how we can measure effectiveness, and finally whether it works in practice. We will also dig into some of the empirical literature to examine some of the evidence behind the handover.
Andrew Pearce is an Emergency Physician and pre-hospital retrieval medicine specialist. He is currently the Clinical...