Trauma
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In a Toronto-based study of 900 calls where patients should have been taken to a trauma center located no more than 30 minutes away, only 53 percent of patients were transported to one
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In a review of 45,284 patients with penetrating trauma, those with spinal immobilization before transport (4.3 percent) “were twice as likely to die, even when controlling for other patient and injury characteristics”
While texting and driving her car collided into the guardrail, sending a metal pole through her thigh and buttocks
Without medical supplies, she used her body to control the bleeding of a fellow firefighter who’s arm was severed in a crash
Two others were also hospitalized after a bolt hit a tree as middle schoolers were taking shelter from a storm during football practice
Four adults and three children were injured when a car crashed into a Los Angeles pizza shop, including a 5-year-old boy who has serious head trauma
His family sued the charity, similar to Make a Wish, after the terminally ill 14-year-old bit off his tongue, broke both legs, and later died in intensive care
The dad and Army sergeant was killed at the scene of the emergency landing and his 9-year-old daughter died in the hospital after they were hit by debris
Firefighters believe lightning struck the ocean and spread through the water
Twelve-year-old says he didn’t feel much pain at first because it happened so fast
You arrived to find a 23-year-old male whose right leg has been nearly amputated above the knee. Did you get your treatment right?
You arrive to find a 23-year-old male whose right leg has been nearly amputated above the knee. What are your treatment priorities?
The strike injured seven other people; two were taken to the hospital by ambulance
He had just finished his first 24-hour shift when he dozed off behind the wheel and woke up in the hospital
Adam Hartswick was responding to a 2013 explosion in Afghanistan that killed four U.S. service members
The off-duty firefighter was hit at a soccer game, and early CPR played a part in his survival; he is in critical condition
The firefighter, identified as Lt. Stu Tudor, had to be resuscitated, and was listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit
He was pulling down the garage when it hit, and was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries
His foot was run over as he walked along the tracks near his house
A 75-year-old man died while waiting to be airlifted to a trauma center after an explosion at the fireworks plant
The South African man was found using a fork and knife to eat the heart; witnesses have been offered counselling
The extrication took firefighters over two hours; the driver was taken to a hospital in an unknown condition
There is nothing like doing a trauma assessment in heels and heading to your EMT basic graduation late, with bloody knees
The surgery involved removing her shin and attaching her reversed foot to the knee socket
The toddler’s mother did not wait for an ambulance and drove the child to the hospital; the teen was also shot three times
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