Table 1.

Trauma centre characteristics

Location	Amsterdam	Cologne	Copenhagen	London	Oslo	Oxford
Admitted trauma patients	201–300	100–200	201–300	>400	> 400	201–300
Patients with massive bleeding [%]	< 10	< 10	< 10	< 10	< 10	< 10
Pre-hospital blood administration			x		x	x
Blood bank in-house	x	x	x	x	x	x
Administration first blood product [min]	<15	16–30	<15	<15	<15	<15
Intended transfusion ratio	1:1:1	1:1	1:1:1	1:2	1:1:1	3:2:1
Specialities in the trauma resuscitation room
General surgery		x		x	x
Trauma/orthopaedic surgery	x	x	x		x	x
Anaesthesiology	x	x	x	x	x	x
Transfusion medicine			x
Intensive care/critical care medicine				x
Accident and emergency medicine	x			x		x
Trauma general surgeons	x				x