Zero preventive trauma deaths. Is it possible, and do first responders hold the key to this lofty goal? Trauma accounts for at least 200,000 U.S. deaths per year. Recognizing this, in its 2016 report, ...
I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...
To help trauma teams optimize a limited window of time after an emergency, trauma surgeons have developed a simulation training program that cuts precious minutes off evaluation times and gets trauma ...
Emergency physicians who play a video game about trauma triage outperform their peers who only receive standard education ...
CHICAGO — Injured patients were evaluated and received medical imaging tests 30% faster after an innovative performance improvement project was enacted at one hospital. "Being able to quickly identify ...
PARMA, Ohio -- Less than a year after the Medical Center in Parma’s Emergency Department was certified as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital, the MetroHealth Snow Road facility recently received a Level ...
HE IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND. TODAY IS NATIONAL TRAUMA SURVIVOR DAY. HOSPITALS IN THE AREA HOSTING HEARTFELT CELEBRATIONS TO HONOR TRAUMA PATIENTS, THEIR FAMILIES AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL TEAMS. ONE OF ...
Uganda's emergency care system is witnessing improved trauma response following the rollout of The Uganda Trauma Assessment and Treatment Algorithm (TUTATA), a practical training programme designed to ...
Eisenhower Health is seeking to upgrade its Rancho Mirage trauma center to provide more advanced care and reduce the number of seriously injured patients who need to be transferred to other hospitals, ...