WAC 246-976-760   Pediatric trauma service designation -- Outreach, public education, provider education, and research.  


  LEVELS
A facility with a designated pediatric trauma service must have: I II III
(1) An outreach program with telephone and on-site consultations with physicians of the community and outlying areas regarding pediatric trauma care; X X  
(2) A public education program addressing injury prevention or documentation of participation in regional injury prevention activities; X X X
(3) Training, including: X    
(a) A formal program of continuing trauma care education for: X X  
(i) Staff physicians; X X  
(ii) Nurses; X X  
(iii) Allied health care professionals; X X  
(iv) Community physicians; and X X  
(v) Prehospital personnel; X X  
(b) Residency programs accredited by the accreditation council of graduate medical education, with a commitment to training physicians in trauma management; X    
(c) Make the facility available for initial and maintenance training of invasive manipulative skills for prehospital personnel; X X X
(4) A trauma research program. X    




[Statutory Authority: RCW 70.168.060 and 70.168.070. 04-01-041, § 246-976-760, filed 12/10/03, effective 1/10/04.]