Trauma

Seat Belt Sign on the Neck Is a Serious Finding

Providers should examine MVC patients for seatbelt sign of the neck because it can signify underlying trauma.

Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Immobilization Study Presents Wake-up Call

A new study delivers a wake-up call about cervical immobilization.

Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Prolonged Entrapment

Paramedics work to extricate a bariatric patient who has been entrapped for more than 30 minutes after a head-on collision.

Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Evidence-based Guidelines for Adult Traumatic Brain Injury Care

With careful attention to the ABCs, EMS providers can reduce the mortality of severe traumatic brain injured patients.

Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Critical Trauma: Life Flight Transports Patient with Head Injuries

EMS providers choose RSI on a cardiac patient in a rural area.

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2010

In Haiti, Bodies Pile, Aid Snarls and Tension Grows

Worries mounted, meanwhile, about food and water for the survivors. People have been almost fighting for water, aid worker Fevil Dubien said as he distributed water from a truck in a northern Port-au-Prince neighborhood.

Posted Friday, January 15, 2010

Rubble, Bodies, Urgent Triage and Fading Hope after Haiti's Quake

On Wednesday, ambulances weaved in and out of crowds, swerving to miss the bodies lying in street and the men on foot who lugged stretchers bearing some of the injured.

Posted Thursday, January 14, 2010

Raw Video: USAR Team Searches Collapse

A search and rescue team from Fairfax, Virginia, is on the ground in quake-stricken Haiti.

Posted Thursday, January 14, 2010

Doctors Without Borders to Surgically Treat 500

About 800 injured people have come to the mission's offices for treatment, Zannini said.

Posted Thursday, January 14, 2010

Disease Could be as Deadly as Quake

The reality of what we're seeing is severe traumas - head wounds, crushed limbs - severe problems that cannot be dealt with at the level of medical care we currently have available."

Posted Thursday, January 14, 2010