Trauma
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Seven resolutions for increasing your resilience to prevent psychological and emotional trauma in emergency services
What do Abraham Lincoln, the Revolutionary War, and an orthopedist named Thomas all have in common? They all played a pioneering & influential role in trauma care within the U.S.
The unfortunate reality remains that victims die because of treatment delays
Two 12-year-olds were charged after allegedly pushing a shopping cart off a fourth-floor walkway
Three victims were found during the weekend but unstable concrete, hanging steel beams and other damage had forced crews to temporarily call off their search
Eric Tarantino was bitten in the neck and arm, both non-life-threatening injuries
San Marcos police say Diann Ford was returning from her job at Long John Silver’s late Tuesday when she was hit
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None of the minivan’s 10 occupants were wearing seatbelts when the crash happened Thursday night
In Ventura County, mortality data show promising results for the fledgling program
Dozens of people were trapped in mounds of concrete, twisted steel and construction debris after hundreds of buildings in two cities
Erlanger Health System launched its “All Hazards Emergency Operations Plan” by early evening
Two passengers have been airlifted to a hospital, where they were in fair condition
Mark Godfrey Jr., 23, was eloctrocuted when a forklift his father was operating came into contact with 12,000 volt wires
Keenia Williams was taking her 5-year-old daughter to school before heading to her job at a senior center when she saw the accident unfold in her rear-view mirror
The operator, Rebecca Blackstop, kept the boy on the phone while dispatching an ambulance and kept him talking
The Hinckley woman died at a hospital Tuesday after being hit near a dark intersection at about 7 a.m
The family wrote on a blog Tuesday that doctors said Savannah Webster would not recover further from severe brain injuries
A video showing a toddler hit twice by vans and then ignored by passers-by is sparking outrage in China
Five people in two vehicles were hurt in a head-on crash in Hanson, Mass.
A high school football player died after he was hit during a varsity game in upstate New York and suffered a head injury
Paramedics transported two elderly people with serious injuries, including lower extremity bone fractures, and three other people with moderate injuries, to Marin General Hospital
Five children from the Mitchell House Children’s group home died Thursday when their van collided with an empty cattle trailer
The students are between the ages of 18 and 22 who qualify for special education services
After a Monday afternoon crash, troopers and other emergency responders searched the area for the car’s driver, but did not find him
The boy was in critical condition when he was flown to Hershey Medical Center Sunday
Authorities say five people on the bus complained of injuries from Saturday morning’s accident, but no one had to be transported by ambulance
Rescue crews pulled the pilot and three others from the East River shortly after the helicopter crashed
Authorities said Michael L. Henry, of Pleasant Shade, Tenn., was killed when the 1998 Dodge Durango he was driving struck a school bus carrying Oakland High School band members
Officers reached the man on foot and pulled him out of the sedan before it burst into flames, but paramedics and firefighters later pronounced him dead at the scene
Emergency medical technicians treated four people on the ground but no one had to be hospitalized
Deputies say the truck’s driver didn’t notice the buggy, which had three people inside