Abstract:
Traumatic shock prognosis of the injured patients in the emergency room is essential due to the patients having severe injuries to vital organs such as airway, respiratory, and circulation lead to tissue injury and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome that leads to the patients deaths immediately. Therefore, prognosis of injured patients at the emergency room for traumatic shock is one practice to detect traumatic shock, create stability, prevent complex injury occurring, and identify life threatening injury that should receive prompt treatment and care which can help reduce mortality rates. This study aimed to gather, analyze, synthesize and summarize recommendations in the process for implementing evidence-based practice by using the PICO framework to search; moreover, this evaluated the quality of evidence by using the framework of the study of Dicenso, et al (2005), and evaluated strength of evidence by prognosis domain of Grace (2009). The search yielded 22 studies meeting the criteria. When the evidence-base was classified by level, the search results have yielded the following; level 2 for research comprising 7 prospective cohort studies with at least 80% follow up; level 4 for research comprising 14 retrospective cohort studies with poor follow up; and level 5 for research comprising 1 case control study. The finding revealed traumatic shock prognosis of the injured patients at the emergency room comprises four topics: 1) Classification of the severity of the injury. 2) Initial assessment at the emergency room. 3) Assessing physical responses. And 4) Collecting data on the injury and diagnosis of the traumatic shock. According to the findings, the topics from the synthesis of evidence-based practice can be developed into guidelines for prognosis injured patients in the emergency room for identified traumatic shock in 4 minutes and trauma record to classification of the severity of the injury to improve the care of injured patients in the emergency room and context-specific research for the workplace.