Dubai: Dubai Health Authority’s (DHA’s) Trauma and Emergency Centre at Rashid Hospital has won pride of place in the biggest German polytrauma registry and has been featured in their top ten list.
A polytrauma registry exists in a few countries in the world and Germany has the biggest polytrauma registry worldwide. In 2011, Rashid Hospital’s Trauma and Emergency Centre became the first in the Middle East region to be included in this registry.
Dr Alya Saif Al Mazroui, CEO of Rashid Hospital, said: “The polytrauma registry is extremely detailed and takes into consideration every step from the time a patient with polytrauma is brought into the hospital, until the patient is discharged. As part of this cooperation, we send complete details of how we treat every polytrauma patient at our hospital to Germany and they analyse our data and benchmark it with other reputed hospitals in the registry. Being in the top ten is a matter of pride for us and reinforces the need for us to continue our efforts to provide a high level of critical care management to our patients.”
The registry is the largest trauma registry and includes hospitals from Germany and 18 neighbouring countries. In 2011, Dubai’s Trauma and Emergency Centre at Rashid Hospital became the first establishment from the Middle East region to be a part of the registry.
A team of specialists from Germany visited the Trauma Centre in Dubai and audited it before inviting the centre to be part of the registry.
