With the rapid economic development in China, the incidence of all sorts of accidental injury, such as traffic injuries and fall-induced injuries, increased significantly. Trauma, particularly severe trauma, often involves multiple organs and multiple system damage, and needs a scientific, standardized comprehensive multidisciplinary approach for treatment. Due to meticulous sub-division of clinical department sand lack of professional trauma treatment team in general hospitals in China′s major cities, the overall level of trauma rescue in China is much lower than the developed countries. So the urgent need is to establish and form an efficient and standardized urban trauma treatment system. In order to further guarantee the establishment of urban trauma rescue system, and to further improve the success rate of trauma rescue in China, nationally well-known trauma experts of China developed the "Expert consensus document on the establishment of urban trauma rescue system in China" based on its previous research results, foreign countries′ successful experience and China′s national conditions. This document would be an important reference for our local governments at all levels to create urban trauma rescue system.

Wounds and injuries; First aid