Trauma team leadership

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• The trauma team leader who performs procedures loses the situational awareness of the resuscitation
• The paramedic MIST handover must be taken before the patient is moved — it guides the team's preparation
• The unstable trauma patient goes to the operating theatre, not the CT scanner — the team leader makes this call
• A team without allocated roles is a crowd — the pre-arrival briefing assigns the roles
• The trauma without a debrief is a trauma whose lessons are lost
• The authority gradient is steep by default — the leader must actively flatten it by inviting the question and the dissent
• The fixation error anchors a team on a single diagnosis despite the contradictory evidence — the formal time-out breaks it
• The major trauma network routes the severely injured to the definitive trauma centre, bypassing the lower-acuity hospital