The hospital is the area's only Level I Trauma Center and burn trauma unit.
Some 60% of emergency room and trauma center visits are the result, directly or indirectly, of substance abuse.
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.
He cited as an example a woman who recently came into the trauma center with a stab wound to the heart.
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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Another study it cites suggests that a delay in transportation from the South Side to a trauma center "has no impact" (PDF).
The facility -- the largest public hospital in the city and a comprehensive trauma center -- was accommodating scores of patients Friday before it was emptied.
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.
Dr. Alasdair Conn, chief of emergency medicine, praised Boston's EMTs for equitably spreading patients across the city and not deluging any trauma center with too many critical patients.
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Only eight states provide any significant trauma center financial support.
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.
Dr. Randall Friese of the UMC trauma center said that at some points as she traveled through the streets of Tucson, Giffords could hear applause from those who turned out to honor her.
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.
"The Level I trauma centers are really expensive, " said Dr. Garen Wintemute, who works in UC Davis' Level I trauma center in California and is the director of its Violence Prevention Research Program.
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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Boston Medical Center trauma surgery chief Peter Burke said hospitals were saving "large quantities" of fragments extracted from victims for the police.
Dr. Horacio Hojman, associate chief of trauma at Tufts Medical Center, said patients were in surprisingly good spirits when they were brought in.
The chief of trauma surgery at Boston Medical Center said most of the injuries his hospital treated were to the legs.
Graphic images have long played a role in driving social awareness and change, said Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
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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Eight men under the age of 30 were taken to Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno with injuries, such as penetrating trauma, fractures and vascular injuries.
Samuel Tisherman and Patrick Kochanek at the University of Pittsburgh's Safar Center for Resuscitation Research hope that much more radical cooling can save trauma victims.
After his time in the Navy, he became the Chief of Trauma and Critical Care and Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona Medical Center.
Matt Friedman, the director of VA's National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, says it is too simplistic to see trauma in purely negative terms.
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.
About 80 percent of sex addiction cases have sexual abuse or emotional trauma in their backgrounds, said Doug Weiss, therapist and executive director of the Heart to Heart Counseling Center.
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