Trauma
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Targeting the most common chief complaints and deadly diagnoses to consider in prehospital medicine
We’ve all been taught the sequence of how to control bleeding, but what about teaching it out of order (and for good reason)?
Technological advances and training are moving hemorrhage control techniques from the battlefield to prehospital and emergency medicine
Two of the drivers were being flown by a state police medevac helicopterr; the third was being transported by ground
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Shuttle slowed to accommodate road construction, was struck from behind by vehicle going regular highway speeds
Opinion has been divided on issue of trauma, including serious head injuries, and benefits of traveling longer distances to specialist hospital
Man last seen on day that investigators say his car was towed after single-vehicle rollover near busy freeway
3 students have broken legs, 2 of those will need to have surgery
Those dead include 1-day-old infant being brought to Chandigarh for treatment
We know that hypothermic patients are never considered dead until they are warm and dead
Flight was carrying 5 people with connections to Oral Roberts University to Christian youth rally in Iowa
Vehicle crashed into support beam with enough force to split in 2, killed passengers inside
Car driven by man taking his children to baby sitter collided head-on with tractor-trailer
Father did not realize his daughter was behind him when he changed riding mower into reverse while mowing yard
WCPO-TV reports officials said at least two of the wounded were in critical condition
After frantic ambulance search to find missing pieces, surgeons disinfected fingertips, reattached them
Police say man got up, told good Samaritan he was OK, then was hit by another vehicle that killed him
2 died when city barge pushed by tug collided with disabled duck boat on Delaware River in 2010
Speeding SUV flew over highway guardrail, plunged 60 feet into secluded area of Bronx Zoo
Girls were reportedly conscious, had fallen asleep while suntanning
Trauma kits designed to ‘save lives’ when used by 1st on scene officer
SUV in crash rolled over several times, slammed into center divider, nearly dropped 30 feet into freeway construction zone
Yellow Dot Program would provide responders with basic information that could be lifesaving at crash scene
Fleets of ambulances ferried injured away from scene
None of 132 passengers or crew aboard train reported injuries
Patrol constable was recuperating Monday after undergoing emergency surgery
Results show effectiveness of helicopter emergency medical services compared to its alternative, ground emergency medical services
Stage rigging collapsed, killed 7 during last summer’s Indiana State Fair
Cable barriers — also called guard cables — began going up along interstate highways about 2 years ago
Accident was so terrible that grief counselors were called to scene