After I did 9 years in the military, I worked as an X-ray tech at a trauma center.
Hewlin, Parmertor, and King were flown by helicopter to a trauma center at MetroHealth Medical Center, in Cleveland.
Another study it cites suggests that a delay in transportation from the South Side to a trauma center "has no impact" (PDF).
In another sign of the evolving times, a neighborhood Burger King that medics once converted to a makeshift trauma center following the attacks, now houses a younger fast-food staff mostly unfamiliar with the restaurant's storied past.
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The hospital, which is also a pediatric trauma center, allows parents to be present even for resuscitation after shock or trauma.
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The facility -- the largest public hospital in the city and a comprehensive trauma center -- was accommodating scores of patients Friday before it was emptied.
He cited as an example a woman who recently came into the trauma center with a stab wound to the heart.
Her best friend had died in January 2001, and Ms. Stang, then 32, felt surrounded by grief at her job as a social worker at an inner-city trauma center near her home in Merriam, Kan.
At Charity Hospital, the city's major trauma center, two intensive care patients died Wednesday morning as a result of the lack of electricity and water, doctors said.
Pinchas Halpern, chair of the emergency department at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Shmuel Shapira, a director of programs at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem who previously led the trauma branch of the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, spent time at MGH as part of a years-long mission that takes them around the world sharing their experience with medical responses to terrorist bombings.
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Although previous reports had indicated she would move directly to a rehabilitation facility affiliated with the hospital, she instead was taken to the hospital's trauma center for evaluation and treatment, Kim said.
As a result, promoters at the center regularly respond to problems arising from conflict and immigration, such as war trauma among Bosnian and Iraqi refugees or a Central American woman raped during border crossing.
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