CHICAGO — Injured patients were evaluated and received medical imaging tests 30% faster after an innovative performance improvement project was enacted at one hospital. "Being able to quickly identify ...

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 ...

To help trauma teams optimize a limited window of time after an emergency, trauma surgeons have developed a simulation training program that cuts precious minutes off evaluation times and gets trauma ...

Jill Ann Anderson: "The sad part is, depending on that trauma, a lot of those people opt out of their career — careers they love — because of the trauma that they get exposed to." A former probation ...

Thirteen medical providers from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, completed the Trauma Nursing Core Course March 8, enhancing their ability to quickly assess and treat patients with traumatic life-threatening ...

Uncontrolled hemorrhage is the most common preventable cause of death for soldiers wounded in combat. In live-tissue trauma training (LTTT), animals (mostly goats and pigs) are used to train ...

LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Germany -- Medical providers from the Army, Air Force and Navy gathered at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Mar. 14-15 for certification in Advanced Trauma Life ...

Graduate social work education must prepare students for competent trauma-informed practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities because social workers are the largest ...

Over the past 20 years, a convergence of research on neuroscience, epigenetics, adversity and toxic stress has established that exposure to trauma and toxic stress adversely affects the health and ...

WMU's School of Social Work provides students with the opportunity to complete a specialization in trauma practice across the lifespan, for Clinical Social Work (CSW) concentration MSW students.