Motivation: Upon arrival on the scene, EMT-B's sometimes mistake dramatic fractures for life threatening injuries. The intent of this drill is to remind rescuers that extremity trauma rarely causes a ...

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, ...

With great enthusiasm, Womack Army Medical Center, Hospital Education & Staff Development (HESD) is thrilled to announce a ...

The Southwest Michigan Children’s Trauma Assessment Center at Western Michigan University’s Unified Clinics is offering two workshops for parents of children who have experienced trauma. These ...

LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Germany -- Medical providers from the Army, Air Force and Navy gathered at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Mar. 14-15 for certification in Advanced Trauma Life ...

On a sunny Michigan morning, Jim Henry and his team sit or stand in front of a two-way mirror, watching the reunification of a mother and the child she tried to kill. And it’s just Tuesday. Henry and ...

McLaren Central Michigan has earned verification from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to become the county’s first trauma center. This comes at the same time as a $2 million ...

Results from this study demonstrated use of a risk assessment model that used seven predictors of pulmonary embolism allowed investigators to identify patients at highest risk for this complication.

If it seems like “trauma” has become a buzzword recently, there’s a reason for that: The understanding of what trauma is, and how it affects our health, is a relatively young field of study. Even in ...

To the children and teachers roiling in the anguished aftermath of the 2021 Oxford High School shooting, it probably seemed there was no way forward out of shock and grief. A school community had been ...