• Nobhojit Roy, Monty Khajanchi, Isaac G Alty, Radzi Hamzah, Anna Aroke, Niladri Banerjee, Sanjeev Bhoi, Shamita Chatterjee, Kapil Dev Soni, Anita Gadgil, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Jagnoor Jagnoor, Anip Joshi, Manjul Joshipura, Jyoti Kamble, Ajai K Malhotra, Sarosh Mehta, Charles N Mock, Rajashekar Mohan, Priyansh Nathani, Roopa Rawat, Bhakti Sarang, SharmaMohan RajMRDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal., Naveen Sharma, Tej Prakash Sinha, Piyush Tewari, Carolina Torres Perez-Iglesias, Isita Tripathi, Pablo Tarsicio Uribe Leitz, Nakul P Raykar, and TRAIN-Trauma India Symposium Collaborators.
• The George Institute for Global Health, JPN Apex Trauma Center, New Delhi, India.
• Indian J Med Res. 2024 Mar 1; 159 (3 & 4): 274284274-284.

AbstractBackground & objectives Injuries profoundly impact global health, with substantial deaths and disabilities, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper presents strategic consensus from the Transdisciplinary Research, Advocacy, and Implementation Network for Trauma in India (TRAIN Trauma India) symposium, advocating for enhanced, system-level trauma care to address this challenge. Methods Five working groups conducted separate literature reviews on pre-hospital trauma care, in-hospital trauma resuscitation and training, trauma systems, trauma registries, and India's Towards Improving Trauma Care Outcomes (TITCO) registry. Using a Delphi approach, the TRAIN Trauma India Symposium generated consensus statements and recommendations for interventions to streamline trauma care and reduce preventable trauma mortality in India and LMICs. Experts prioritized interventions based on cost and difficulty. Results An expert panel agreed on four pre-hospital consensus statements, eight hospital resuscitation consensus statements, six system-level consensus statements, and six trauma registry consensus statements. The expert panel recommended six pre-hospital interventions, four hospital resuscitation interventions, nine system-level interventions, and seven trauma registry interventions applicable to the Indian context. Of these, 14 interventions were ranked as low cost/low difficulty, five high cost/low difficulty, five low cost/high difficulty, and three high cost/high difficulty. Interpretation & conclusions This consensus underscores the urgent need for integrated and efficient trauma systems to reduce preventable mortality, emphasizing the importance of comprehensive care that includes community engagement and robust pre-hospital and acute hospital trauma care pathways. It highlights the critical role of inclusive, system-wide approaches, from enhancing pre-hospital care and in-hospital resuscitation to implementing effective trauma registries to improve outcomes and streamline care across contexts.

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