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, ...

Approach the patient with an intentional primary and secondary survey to avoid letting painful and gruesome wounds distract ...

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 ...

Concord Hospital has been reverified as a Level II trauma center, the second-highest category possible, by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.

Recently, the concept of “trauma-informed” care has permeated many mental health agencies and clinical practices. It has become clear that many of the “symptoms” and presenting problems that bring ...

Children at Western's Children's Trauma Assessment Center have their treatment coordinated through the University's Resiliency Center for Families and Children to include families, caregivers and ...