Major Trauma awareness week at Birmingham Children’s Hospital
This week, our Major Trauma team at the Children’s Hospital have been celebrating Major Trauma Awareness week. This awareness week allows the Major Trauma team to be recognised and celebrated for what they do to support patients and families at our hospital. To commemorate this, they have been working on raising awareness of what professionals within the speciality do and why they are so important for seeing and treating patients with a holistic approach.
A Major Trauma Coordinator and PICU Physiotherapist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Xanthi Katsiki said: “Here at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, we would like to emphasise how important this week is, in order to raise awareness around those catastrophic injuries and their long-term impacts.”
“We want to empower our professionals who are working with our patients. We also want to keep supporting our patients and their families.”
As part of raising awareness, the major trauma coordination team launched their own web page for colleagues, patients and families to learn more about what they do and how they can support patients’ recovery/rehabilitation after their injury.
The Major Trauma coordination team, based in the Therapies department, are a small team of professionals from Allied Health professionals and nursing backgrounds; who work with other members of the multidisciplinary team and community services to efficiently coordinate patients’ care and rehabilitation.
The Major Trauma team sees the patient from a holistic view and as Xanthi explained ‘it is very important to highlight that all their team’s members have extensive knowledge in treating patients with traumatic injuries’.
For more information about the team and what they do click the link https://bwc.nhs.uk/major-trauma