Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Trauma-induced retinal hemorrhages are rare, but if a patient comes in with one be sure to conduct a ...

Nurse practitioners can help prevent patients from experiencing long-term cognitive effects by screening patients for concussions. Almost half of trauma patients (41%) admitted to the hospital have a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Penn Medicine researchers believe their findings show that administering AVP to trauma patients with severe bleeding could become standard practice in trauma care. Dosing gunshot victims and other ...

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 ...

The Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program at UAB provides an opportunity for fellows to acquire in-depth knowledge of the pathophysiology of critical care, treatment of the most ...

Patient volume not tenure drives better survival in severely injured trauma patients treated by EMS clinicians, per UPMC and University of ...