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Surgery - Trauma and Critical Care
David H. Livingston, MD, Chief of Trauma
Anne Mosenthal, MD, Director of Surgical Intensive Care
The Division of Trauma provides 24-hour, front-line attending coverage to the New Jersey Trauma Center, the state-designated Level I Trauma Center serving northern New Jersey. It offers a full range of trauma services with subspecialty assistance in orthopaedics, neurosurgery, urology, plastic surgery, and related fields.Three trauma-dedicated operating rooms are immediately available for critically injured patients and a Trauma-Surgical Intensive Care Unit is staffed by the division to provide the appropriate level of ongoing monitoring and treatment required by patients with multiple injuries. A neurosurgical intensive care unit receives patients with neurological trauma. A dedicated trauma nursing unit, including a 4-bed step-down unit, is maintained to accommodate less severely injured patients and patients recovering from major trauma. It is staffed by an experienced trauma nurse/physician assistant team.The staff has access to state-of-the-art technology such as special blood banking services and autotransfusion and is supported by specially trained nurses and other health care professionals.All of the trauma surgeons maintain personal, one-to-one follow-up with their patients. Communication with case managers and primary care physicians is consistently maintained for all trauma cases.The New Jersey Trauma Center serves as the medical control for the NorthSTAR Air Medical Helicopter Transport Program, which serves the Level I and II Trauma Centers of the northern and central portions of the state. NorthSTAR is available for both on scene and inter-facility transports according to a triage system based upon severity of injury and transport time.
Appointments: (973) 972-2400
Staff
Juan Antonio Asensio, MD, FACS, FCCM
Carl Hauser, MD
Alicia M. Mohr, MD
Eric Munoz, MD
Ziad Sifri, MD
Charles Tischler, MD
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