• Zain G Hashmi, Caroline Park, and American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Teletrauma Spotlight Session Workgroup..
• Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
• J. Am. Coll. Surg. 2024 Sep 13.

AbstractNearly 30 million, mostly rurally-located Americans lack timely access to level I or II trauma center care, resulting in inefficient resource use and potentially preventable deaths. Although significant progress has been made in the care of the injured patient over the last few decades, rural trauma patients continue to face significant challenges in accessing high quality trauma care with resultant outcomes disparities and increased expenditures associated with potentially avoidable interfacility transfers. Current mitigation strategies have not sufficiently improved access to trauma care among this population, necessitating a search for alternative strategies such as integration of telehealth for trauma care or teletrauma. Telehealth is well-established in several healthcare areas resulting in improved patient and system-level outcomes. While telehealth has been used in trauma with some success, it remains underused. Members of a 2023 ACS Committee on Trauma Spotlight Session on the role of teletrauma present an introduction to the applications, potential benefits and future directions for telehealth use in trauma care.Copyright © 2024 by the American College of Surgeons. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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