This revamping of training quality has made the University of Chicago a national Mecca for medical education, thus improving trainee recruitment and spurring the formation of cross-institutional partnerships. As a case study, the UCMTC opening underscores how opening level-1 trauma centers at academic...
The University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) established a novel blood bank to complement its Level 1 trauma center. The blood bank with the support of the newly formed Section of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery developed a new massive transfusion protocol (MTP), improved staffing and created operation...
Trauma of NICU can follow parents home Related Patient Stories Emberlyn's story: Breathing easier with a new level of care When Morgan and Brooke’s first baby Emberlyn was born early at just 33 weeks, they were ecstatic that she was eating and breathing well enough that...
Trauma ISS References Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Web–based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) [online]. Accessed 1 Nov 2018. Jager TE, Weiss HB, Coben JH, Pepe PE. Traumatic brain injuries evaluated in U....
The primary field site for data collection was a level-1 trauma/academic medical center ED located in the southeastern U.S. The ED provides acute adult, pediatric, women's health, psychiatric, and trauma health care services. The PI had insider status through her concurrent work as an ED nu...
It has also performed satisfactorily in answering physician-generated medical queries across 12 distinct specialties, including ophthalmology, dermatology, oncology, infectious disease, neurosurgery, gastroenterology, radiation oncology, trauma surgery, cardiology, anesthesiology, pulmonology, and surgical oncology ...
As the climate continues to warm, hurricanes will continue to increase in both severity and frequency. Hurricane damage is associated with cardiovascular events, but social capital may moderate this relationship. Social capital is a multidimensional conc
An abstract is unavailable. This article is available as a PDF only.doi:10.1097/00005373-198907000-00070SmithR. F.Journal of Trauma Injury Infection & Critical Care
Midterm and long-term observations have revealed that more than half of the patients who lost a limb due to a trauma need a detailed diagnosis of mental and psychological problems [47,48,49,50,51,52]. Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse are among the most common...
Rape myths, which are present at both the individual and institutional/societal levels, are one way in which sexual violence has been sustained and justified throughout history. In light of an increasing accumulation of rape myth research across a variety of disciplines, this paper proposes to use...