Tweet Helicopter EMS (HEMS) transports are a valuable yet very expensive resource. Unfortunately, many state trauma systems or local EMS…
Tweet Trauma programs and their registries are very good at abstracting and compiling a wide variety of data points on…
Tweet A massive transfusion protocol must be available at all trauma centers, large and small, urban and rural. In an…
Tweet Every major trauma patient undergoes some type of radiographic imaging during their initial evaluation. On occasion, some incidental finding…
Tweet Level I and II trauma centers are considered resource centers in that they have very robust capabilities in terms…
Tweet Hospitals that do not have neurosurgical coverage are faced with a dilemma when they receive a head-injured patient. Do…
Tweet Falls in our elderly population are one of the largest issues facing trauma centers in the US, if not…
Tweet Trauma centers verified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) (and most states who perform their own designation visits)…
Tweet What goes around comes around. Fifty years ago, blood banks began fractionating whole blood into separate products so that…
Tweet Traumatic hemothorax is an interesting problem. Sometimes it clots, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it sticks to the lung and…