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 abdominal injuries, highlighting significant variation in care worldwide and ...
Houston Chronicle

Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital expands to add more emergency trauma and surgery rooms. Here's why.

Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital has expanded its emergency center and surgical department to meet the needs of the ever-growing Katy area. COMING SOON: New retail, dining, and apartments are coming to ...
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 ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Study: Rates of Emergency Surgery Vary by State

There are substantial state-to-state variations in the incidence of elective versus emergent bowel surgery, according to a study in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Researchers conducted ...
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, ...
Baylor College of Medicine

Trauma, Bariatric and Acute Care Surgery Research

Baylor College of Medicine surgeons provide important evidence-based care for some of Houston’s most acutely injured patients. Research in the division is lead by Dr. Jennifer Leonard, an NIH-funded ...
Kaleido Scope

UAB Hospital re-verified as a Level I trauma center

UAB Hospital has been reverified as a Level I adult trauma center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma (COT) and remains the only ACS-Level I adult trauma center in the state ...