Hospitals' compliance with guidelines for treating brain injuries doesn't guarantee better outcomes
Two decades ago, the Brain Trauma Foundation published its first set of guidelines for treating traumatic brain injury.
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Two decades ago, the Brain Trauma Foundation published its first set of guidelines for treating traumatic brain injury.
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A highly specialized procedure that lengthens bones can prevent the need for amputations in selected patients who have suffered severe fractures.
Jul 17, 2015
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A scoring system that can identify periods of high activity and increased trauma patient deaths in hospital emergency rooms may help hospitals better prepare for surges in trauma patient volume that come with catastrophic ...
Jun 29, 2015
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The NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre has developed a piece of work that applies soft computing solutions to predicting survival in multiple trauma patients. The study was carried out by A&E doctors in the Health Service ...
Jun 29, 2015
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As health insurers place more emphasis on paying for quality outcomes rather than for specific services provided by doctors and hospitals, several quality improvement programs have been developed as a way to help health care ...
Jun 10, 2015
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Traumatic injury is the leading cause of death among people under age 45, but if trauma physicians could deliver plasma to these injury victims within minutes of their arrival in the emergency room, more of them would stand ...
May 28, 2015
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A good working relationship with police is essential for the smooth operation of a busy Emergency Department. Police are in and out of EDs regularly, supporting EMS, transporting patients and helping to provide a safe environment ...
May 26, 2015
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A study of survival rates in trauma patients following health insurance reform in Massachusetts found a passing increase in adjusted mortality rates, an unexpected finding suggesting that simply providing insurance incentives ...
May 6, 2015
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The University of Maryland School of Medicine is part of a new nationwide, multi-site study that may help save hundreds of lives among trauma patients with major bleeding. The study, which was published earlier this month ...
Feb 19, 2015
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In cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI), predicting the likelihood of a cranial lesion and determining the need for head computed tomography (CT) can be aided by measuring markers of bone injury in the blood. The results ...
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