Nurse fired after warning Portland hospital that it could run out of blood for trauma patients, suit claims

A former trauma nurse at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center is suing the health system, claiming supervisors retaliated against ...

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

In trauma care, this kind of knowledge could save lives. When seconds matter, the team needs to instantly know who would be best at placing a breathing tube and who would be best at reading the ...

‘I felt like a specimen’ – New clinical recommendations aim to improve trauma‑informed care in pelvic medicine

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

How blood biomarkers can predict trauma patient recovery days in advance

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz have developed a way to predict how trauma patients will recover, days before complications come to fruition, by analyzing the molecules in their ...
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 ...
Healio

Mortality reduced with intubation before hospitalization in patients with major trauma

Thirty-day mortality of patients with major trauma fell if they received intubation before hospital admission per prediction from a machine learning risk-stratifying model, according to data published ...
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 ...
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 ...

The 'Golden Hour': Distance and delay define rural trauma care timelines

Billings Clinic investigators tracked trauma patients arriving directly from the scene versus patients transferred between ...
ABC4 Utah

How trauma program at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital – Miller Campus in Lehi is saving lives in fast-growing Utah and Salt Lake Counties

Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital – Miller Campus in Lehi opened in February of 2024 and has already helped save lives for children in fast growing Utah and ...
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 ...