Trauma Diagnostics: Streamlining Use of Computed Tomography (CT) Scans and Surgery Balancing the risk of a missed injury with efforts to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure and exploratory surgery ...

I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...

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 ...

Early administration of 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate (4F-PCC) was of no benefit to patients with trauma at risk of massive transfusion, the randomized PROCOAG trial from France showed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When someone is badly hurt, their potential for survival often depends on what happens in the first minutes after they arrive at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uganda's emergency care system is witnessing improved trauma response following the rollout of The Uganda Trauma Assessment and Treatment Algorithm (TUTATA), a practical training programme designed to ...