Fractures of the pelvic ring are potentially life-threatening complications of high-energy trauma, such as that caused by motor vehicle collisions (Figure 1A). 1 The primary mode of death from these ...

For the clinician providing the initial emergency care the experience can be extremely stressful as often the patient is being seen as an emergency between other waiting patients and is not familiar ...

Hippocrates wrote, “He who would become a surgeon should join an army and follow it.” 1 The rapid advancement of trauma care is often, sadly, firmly linked to warfare. William Mayo, many centuries ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz have developed a way to predict how trauma patients will recover, days ...

Pictured from left to right atop the Saint Francis Hospital helipad, Dr. Manny Moutinho, trauma surgeon, Dr. David Shapiro, Director of the Surgical Care Unit and Vice Chair of the Department of ...

Lancaster General Hospital treats 2,000 trauma patients every year, including victims of shootings, stabbings, vehicle and farm accidents, falls, assaults and burns. Trauma care begins with emergency ...

Trauma patients urgently requiring a breathing tube are more likely to survive if the tube is inserted before arriving at ...

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 ...

If an adult is sexually assaulted in the District, one group of specially trained nurses is called upon to perform a forensic exam should the survivor wish to receive one. And sexual assault occurs ...