The Trauma Center at Penn

Description

We describes the activities of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgical Services available within the Penn Medicine network. The PennSTAR Critical Care Transport program supports the mission of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgical Services The Trauma Center at Penn was established in 1988 as an accredited Level I Regional Resource Trauma Center serving the population locally here in West Philadelphia, as well as throughout the Philadelphia metropolitan area, through our PennSTAR Flight program. The Trauma Center at Penn has long been considered a national and international model of excellence in trauma and surgical critical care. All of the trauma surgeons are fellowship trained in trauma care and specialize in complex and high-acuity, multi-system trauma. With round the clock support from in-house trauma surgeons and emergency medicine physicians, as well as the dedicated support from the members of the departments of anesthesia, orthopedics, neurosurgery, plastics, ENT, OMF, ophthalmology, vascular, cardiothoracic and physical medicine and rehabilitation, as well as our trauma nurses and allied health partners, the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery at Penn Medicine is able to offer our patients the most advanced specialty care in the region. In addition to the flagship Trauma Program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Trauma provides clinical