In this guest column, Dr. Meghan Marsac, a pediatric psychologist, and Melissa J. Hogan, a mom to a child with a rare and chronic condition, write about the need for more awareness concerning medical ...

Evidence suggests the widespread adoption of trauma-informed care practices can potentially improve access to care as well as ...

Imagine a medical experience that leaves you not just physically scarred but emotionally wounded as well. The psychological impact of medical trauma can be far-reaching, affecting your trust in ...

St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley has changed its hospital designation from a Level 4 trauma center to a provisional Level 3 trauma center.

“My son refused to lift his shirt. He fought all of us trying to help him—trying to give him the medicine and care his body needed. I felt guilty and anxious and sad, not only that I felt like I ...

Even through Zoom, I could tell she was unraveling. Her face was drawn, her shoulders hunched, her eyes darting just off-camera like she was bracing for bad news. She told me the incisions from her ...

Medical trauma is defined as the psychological or physiological response to a traumatic experience in a medical setting. Some of the reasons people develop medical trauma can include going through a ...

When a trauma patient enters the emergency department, their potential for survival often depends on what happens within the first minutes after their arrival. After studying trauma resuscitation ...

When someone suffers a traumatic injury, whether a severe cut or a violent car crash, advanced medical care can not only save that person’s life, but determine the extent of that injury’s impacts on ...

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) cited hospitalizations, as well as poorly managed anxiety and pain, as possible sources of post-traumatic stress (PTS), a cross-sectional, observational ...

With more than 41,000 patient visits in the last year, the emergency department at Jefferson Regional Medical Center is in constant motion, and now the hospital has added a third trauma surgeon . As a ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A survey team of trauma experts reported to a Tennessee state commission that it found no deficiencies and awarded high marks to the Johnson City Medical Center’s (JCMC) ...