Introduction
TTSH Trauma Centre is a virtual integration of services in the hospital for the care of the trauma patients. We attend to the largest number of trauma patients in Singapore.
The disciplines involved in the care of our patients are:
- Emergency Medicine
- General Surgery
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care & Pain Medicine
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Neuroradiology
- Rehabilitation Medicine
TTSH Trauma Training Centre, the training wing of the Trauma Centre, is a regional trauma training hub. The Centre runs internationally accredited trauma courses such as the Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) Course, the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Course, the Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC) Course, and the Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Course.
Central to TTSH Trauma is the Trauma & Acute Care Surgery Unit, which comes under the Department of General Surgery. The Trauma Unit coordinates the multidisciplinary management of polytrauma patients in the centre.
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