Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery John Holcomb, M.D., FACS, published “Damage control laparotomy in trauma: a pilot randomized controlled trial,” in the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Open ...
A new international study published in eClinicalMedicine has mapped global blood transfusion practices for life-threatening abdominal injuries, highlighting significant variation in care worldwide and ...
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 ...
Baylor College of Medicine has a profound history in the care of trauma and acute care surgery patients. Dr. Kenneth Mattox, a true pioneer who, by helping define what trauma surgery was, had an ...
Hippocrates wrote, “He who would become a surgeon should join an army and follow it.” 1 The rapid advancement of trauma care is often, sadly, firmly linked to warfare. William Mayo, many centuries ...
An otherwise healthy four-year-old boy was brought to the emergency department by his mother several hours after he had an unwitnessed fall at home. He had been playing with his friends, when they ...
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 ...
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