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Prioritizing Suspected Diagnosis of Both Brain and Abdominalinjuries: Is it a Problem?

Leon Levi, Moshe Michaelson

Dept. of Neurosurgery and Trauma Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa

Current guidelines for management of suspected head and abdominal injuries are based on retrospective studies like that of Wisner & al, Following a recent review in this journal by Y. Kluger & al, which was based on non-Israeli data, we decided to define the current status at our trauma center.

We compare our data of 18 months of hospital admissions for acute trauma in which head CTs were done with those of 5 articles advocating specific protocols for decisions in pre-laparotomy diagnosis.

In the 861 cumulated cases, compared with the 800 of Wisner & al, craniotomy was required in 15% vs 7% (p<0.05); laparotomy was much less frequent, 2.7% vs 12.9% (p<0.05). The chance of finding a case requiring both craniotomy and laparotomy was 1 in 300.

As the clinical condition of multiple trauma involving the head and abdomen is becoming less frequent and includes diverse situations, a comprehensive algorithm might be inaccurate. Good clinical judgment of the clinician and teamwork are therefor preferable.

Use of Intranet in the Hospital Setting

David Bregman, Leon Levi

College of Administration, Tel Aviv and Rambam Medical Center, Haifa

In the Intranet system, the organization uses technologies developed and applied in the Internet network world-wide. Hospitals can use Internet technologies to make hospital information systems more efficient by improving use of existing systems and by adding additional possibilities. Furthermore, the hospital can improve its relations with its customers and also bring the organization additional customers. Intranet implementation can be divided into the areas of: communication, managing and distributing information, and application linkage. Implementation must be modular, gradual and planned according to economic, technological and organizational aspects of the hospitals. By the Intranet, organizations can achieve benefits that include: improving communication array, availability of data and information, using existing information systems and their applications, enhancing customer satisfaction and saving costs of manual application systems.