View Article | In EMS, “trauma care” conjures up bleeding or broken bones. But there’s another type of trauma care that has little to do with blood and guts. It’s called “trauma-informed care,” and it’s provoking changes to the way that healthcare providers treat and communicate with patients.
Trauma-informed care acknowledges that most people have had one or more traumatic experiences. The goal of trauma-informed care is to speak to, interact with and care for patients in a way that avoids re-traumatizing them.
“Trauma-informed care is a strategic framework for how to support people who have survived various forms of trauma. It could be physical, sexual, psychological or even historical and structural trauma, like the kind of trauma that gets passed down in gender and racial minorities,” explained Dr. Sadie Elisseou, a clinical instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician with the VA Boston Healthcare System. View Article