Trauma patients recover faster when medical teams know each other well, new study finds

When a trauma patient enters the emergency department, their potential for survival often depends on what happens within the ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Patient volume, not tenure, key in trauma care: UPMC study

Survival rates of severely injured patients were correlated with EMS clinicians’ volume, not years of experience, in a recent UPMC and University of Pittsburgh study. The study, published Feb. 18 in ...
Daily Mail on MSN

I work with brain trauma patients - these are the things I would never do after learning about them

Australian speech pathologist Georgia Zadow sees brain trauma patients in her work so she knows first-hand the hidden dangers ...
Baylor College of Medicine

Houstonians’ input on study for trauma patient who are ‘bleeding out’

Bleeding out, or the rapid loss of blood, is the most common cause of preventable death after injury. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Ben Taub Hospital, part of Harris Health System, are ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

Trauma patient receives Cobb County's first pre-hospital blood transfusion

Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services (CCFES) performed the county's first-ever pre-hospital blood transfusion on a trauma patient. The transfusion involved administering red blood cells and fresh ...
Healio

Treatment after trauma: ‘Care for the entire patient’

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Traumatic injuries can impact an individual’s physical and psychological health. Orthopedic surgeons should be a ...
The Herald-Mail

Trauma patients have new life-saving resource at Meritus. How whole blood will be used.

Meritus Medical Center is now stocking a life-saving resource developed on the battlefield that will give trauma patients a better chance at survival. Through work by the Meritus trauma department and ...
Kaleido Scope

Surviving trauma: Here is how UAB is tackling the trauma care gap

Media contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Trauma is the most common cause of death for patients ...
WUWM

Improving patient outcomes by seeing and treating trauma as a public health priority

The Trauma Quality of Life Clinic takes a holistic approach to firearm injury to promote healing and resilience. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has issued a first-of-its-kind advisory declaring gun ...
WBUR

Prehospital blood transfusion a ‘game changer’ for trauma patients, experts say

For many years, first responders would rush patients with severe blood loss to the hospital for a blood transfusion. But in ...

Brigham and Women’s nurse running Boston Marathon with trauma patients in mind

It’s 28-year-old Allie Kelsey’s first marathon, and she’s running it with Stepping Strong, a non-profit created by the Reny ...
WPBF

'We support them on this journey': Emergency trauma staff honored on National Trauma Survivors Day

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 ...