Physician's Weekly

Q&A: Factoring Frailty into Emergency Surgery for Older Adults

Dr. Galinos Barmparas shares expert insights on how frailty shapes operative risk and the subsequent clinical trajectory ...

International trauma analysis finds big transfusion differences, with whole blood common in low-resource hospitals

A new international study published in eClinicalMedicine has mapped global blood transfusion practices for life-threatening ...
ABC4 Utah

How trauma program at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital – Miller Campus in Lehi is saving lives in fast-growing Utah and Salt Lake Counties

Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital – Miller Campus in Lehi opened in February of 2024 and has already helped save ...
Medical Xpress

Patients in least developed countries three times more likely to die after abdominal trauma surgery, study reveals

Mortality after emergency abdominal surgery is more than three times higher in the least developed countries compared to the most developed. Yet among those who undergo surgery, injuries tend to be ...
Kaleido Scope

Laverty, Robert, M.D.

Major Robert Laverty is an active duty Air Force trauma surgeon with the Special Operations Surgical Team (SOST) based out of UAB. He joined UAB in 2024, when he became a clinical assistant professor ...
Kaleido Scope

UAB Trauma faculty had strong showing at AAST in Boston

UAB was well represented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery, with five faculty serving as presenters, ...
The Westside Gazette

Knowing Where to Go for the Right Care Emergency Department or Urgent Care

Broward Health is expanding access to emergency care across Broward County by developing three freestanding emergency ...
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A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury

This study was supported by Contract No. W81XWH-15-C-0045 with the U.S. Department of Defense, Contract No. HSHQDC-15-C-00080 with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Contract No.