Professor Belinda GabbeHead of Pre-Hospital, Emergency and Trauma Research, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Professor Belinda Gabbe is the Head of the Prehospital, Emergency and Trauma Research Unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, holds a Professorial Chair appointment in the Health Data Research UK Institute at Swansea University (UK), and is an Adjunct Professor at Flinders University. Her research focuses on evaluating trauma care, trauma systems research, and improving understanding of the burden of injury. She is the head of the Victorian State Trauma Registry and the Victorian Orthopaedic Trauma Outcomes Registry, and leads the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia funded REcovery after Serious Trauma—Outcomes, Resource use and patient Experiences (RESTORE) study and the Paediatric Validating Injury Burden Estimates Study (VIBES-Junior).
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Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Outcomes in a Mature Trauma System
Serious neurotrauma, including spinal cord injury (SCI) and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have lifelong impacts and profound societal costs. In Australia, the lifetime costs for severe TBI and SCI have been estimated at $4.8 to $9.5 million per incident case, highlighting the need for high quality acute care and rehabilitation. The State of Victoria, Australia has been operating an inclusive, regionalised trauma system since the early 2000s with routine monitoring of care and outcomes, including long-term patient-reported outcomes, undertaken using the Victorian State Trauma Registry. In this presentation, the management of severe TBI and SCI in the trauma system, and the outcomes of these cases will be presented relative to other major trauma cases. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patient care pathways and discharge destinations will also be presented.
Serious neurotrauma, including spinal cord injury (SCI) and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have lifelong impacts and profound societal costs. In Australia, the lifetime costs for severe TBI and SCI have been estimated at $4.8 to $9.5 million per incident case, highlighting the need for high quality acute care and rehabilitation. The State of Victoria, Australia has been operating an inclusive, regionalised trauma system since the early 2000s with routine monitoring of care and outcomes, including long-term patient-reported outcomes, undertaken using the Victorian State Trauma Registry. In this presentation, the management of severe TBI and SCI in the trauma system, and the outcomes of these cases will be presented relative to other major trauma cases. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patient care pathways and discharge destinations will also be presented.
