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 ...

Updated guidance incorporates new research to address nonoperative management of BTAI, timing of repair & managing ...

Doctor wheeling patient Project reduced mean pain scores in trauma patients on medication-assisted therapy for opioid use disorder by nearly 50%. In 2018, 10.3 million opioids were misused, and 1.27 ...

New guidelines emphasize selective imaging, cautious surgical decision-making, and more in penetrating traumatic brain injury ...

As a 35-year veteran in physician recruiting and staffing in the surgical specialties, it seems within the last several years there has been an unprecedented movement within the hospital industry to ...

Objectives: We assessed whether proactive care management for artificial intelligence (AI)–identified at-risk patients reduced preventable emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions (HAs ...

Complex genitourinary injuries—associated with lower-extremity amputation as well as pelvic and abdominal wounding—have emerged as common occurrences in current military combat operations. The nature ...

The COT’s Consultation/Verification Program for Hospitals, established by the ACS in 1987, promotes the development of trauma centers. Verified trauma centers must ...

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 ...

A new study finds intoxicated trauma patients were more likely to survive their injuries than trauma patients who were sober. Trauma patients who were intoxicated before their injuries were more ...

Anticoagulation by inhibition of platelets or coagulation cascades improves outcomes in patients at risk for acute coronary syndromes, cerebrovascular accidents, or embolic events. These benefits come ...