http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Wounded soldiers who sustained chest injuries in Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) had higher mortality rates than soldiers in Korea and Vietnam, according to a military trauma study presented at the 2012 American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress. However, better battlefield triage and transport may have meant that severely wounded soldiers whom would have been considered killed in action in previous conflicts are more likely to get sent to trauma centers in the United States sooner in their course of care, study authors explained. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-battlefield-triage-severely-wounded-soldiers.html Surgery Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:20:01 EST news268571165 (Medical Xpress)—With traumatic injuries claiming almost six million lives a year, improvements in care, including in the challenging areas of brain and bone injuries, and haemorrhage, are urgently needed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-advancing-treatment-trauma.html Health Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:40:01 EST news267431207 (AP)—After a motorbike accident, Bharat Singh rushed to get his brother the emergency care he needed. It would end up taking five hours—three of them spent in a van posing as an ambulance, with an empty oxygen tank and no medic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-india-emergency-tatters.html Health Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:45:58 EST news266035549 (HealthDay)—New research suggests that doctors are doing a better job of treating—and saving—emergency room patients whose injuries fall between mild and severe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-er-deaths-trauma-injury.html Surgery Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:00:01 EST news265433030 A large-scale review of national patient records reveals that although survival rates are the same, the cost of treating trauma patients in the western United States is 33 percent higher than the bill for treating similarly injured patients in the Northeast. Overall, treatment costs were lower in the Northeast than anywhere in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-trauma-doesnt-higher-survival.html Surgery Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:39:43 EST news263792329 Contrary to what many trauma teams believe, the presence of family members does not impede the care of injured children in the emergency department, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-family-members-ed-critical.html Pediatrics Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:30:01 EST news254896470 Up to two million lives, annually, could be saved globally with improvements in trauma care, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This estimate by Charles Mock, from the University of Washington in Seattle, and his team provides support for investment in and greater attention to strengthening trauma care services globally. Their work is published online in Springer's World Journal of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-invest-trauma.html Surgery Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:13:01 EST news251374347