Changes in Trauma Care at Our Institution Following Implementation of a Hybrid Emergency Room System (HERS) in the Emergency Department

[Introduction] At our Emergency and Critical Care Center, Emergency department physicians have traditionally activated a trauma code upon notification of a severely injured patient and initiated initial management in parallel with paging surgical services and radiology. On January 1, 2023, a hybrid emergency room system (HERS), co-locating Computed Tomography (CT) and an angiography suite, was introduced. We examined how this system changed our response, focusing on access to CT and angiography.