Georgia Trauma Commission

Founded in 2007, the Georgia Trauma Commission is dedicated to improving the health of injured Georgians by ensuring access to quality trauma care, coordinating key trauma system components, and educating trauma care providers access the multidisciplinary continuum. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e8CPhkrG

We are looking for EMS field providers, EMS leadership, and hospital staff to participate in our statewide EMS educational needs assessment by January 10th! Why participate? ✅ Help shape the future of trauma care and EMS education in Georgia. ✅ Focused on Improvement: This non-punitive assessment respects that every region and provider has unique strengths and needs. ✅ Confidential and Secure: All responses are confidential. Help us advance patient outcomes by participating in the survey here: https://bit.ly/3Z5nl78

The holidays can be full of excitement and fun, but they also contain their share of potential hazards. Check out the "12 Days of Injury Prevention" to keep you and your family safe: ⤵️

With funding allocated by the Georgia Trauma Commission EMS Committee, the AVLS program provides a system that ensures real-time tracking and communication with 911-contracted ambulances with the goal of improving trauma care. The network supports pre-hospital trauma care and transport to medical facilities by providing the ability to exchange the highest levels of medical information between ambulances and hospitals. Enrollment is now open for the 2025 Cellular Carrier Enrollment Period! Learn more: ⤵️

With funding allocated by the Georgia Trauma Commission EMS Committee, the AVLS program provides a system that ensures real-time tracking and communication with 911-contracted ambulances with the goal of improving trauma care. The network supports pre-hospital trauma care and transport to medical facilities by providing the ability to exchange the highest levels of medical information between ambulances and hospitals. Enrollment is now open for the 2025 Cellular Carrier Enrollment Period! Learn more: ⤵️

Though winter weather can be unpredictable in Georgia, staying prepared is important. Here are a few safety tips to keep in mind as the temperature drops: ❄️ Make certain your tires are properly inflated and have plenty of tread. ❄️ Never warm up a vehicle in an enclosed area, such as a garage. ❄️ Keep a bundle of cold-weather gear in your car. This includes items like extra food and water, warm clothing, a flashlight, a glass scraper, blankets, medications, and more. ❄️ Remove bulky coats before placing children underneath a car seat harness. Bulky clothing makes it difficult to tighten a car seat harness properly. And a loose harness can lead to serious injuries or ejection from the seat during a crash. ❄️ Never drive when impaired by alcohol or drugs (or ride with an impaired driver). Instead, designate a sober driver, use a ride-share service or stay at home. Learn more from HSI below:

Have you started your holiday shopping yet? When shopping for children's gifts, safety should be the top priority. 🎁 Prevent Blindness has designated December as Safe Toys and Gifts Awareness Month, encouraging everyone to consider safety guidelines before purchasing toys and gifts. Find tips for buying safe toys here: https://bit.ly/3AJ69Mo

This holiday season, please consider donating to Georgia Trauma Foundation's Georgia Gives campaign to equip schools with life-saving bleeding control kits. Bleeding control kits are critical in saving lives before first responders can arrive. $50 provides one bleeding control kit. $100 equips two classrooms with kits. Click here to make your gift: https://lnkd.in/d3TR-yWw

December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month. 🚗 Alcohol is only one cause of impaired driving. Drugs — including opioids, marijuana, and some over-the-counter medicines — can impair driving by causing drowsiness, altering visual functions and affecting mental judgment and motor skills. Other factors, such as fatigue and stress, also can impair your ability to drive. Drivers should avoid driving while impaired by any of these factors, just as they would if they consumed alcohol.

We are looking for EMS field providers, EMS leadership, and hospital staff to participate in our statewide EMS educational needs assessment by January 10th! Why participate? ✅ Help shape the future of trauma care and EMS education in Georgia. ✅ Focused on Improvement: This non-punitive assessment respects that every region and provider has unique strengths and needs. ✅ Confidential and Secure: All responses are confidential. Help us advance patient outcomes by participating in the survey here: https://bit.ly/3Z5nl78.