Surviving Traumatic Injury: Improving the Odds (HHS Only)

 


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Air date: Thursday, February 14, 2008, 8:30:00 AM
Category: HHS Only
Runtime: 240 minutes
NLM Title: Surviving traumatic injury : improving the odds [electronic resource] / Rao Ivatury ... [et al.].
Series: Science in the public health
Author: Ivatury, Rao R.
Publisher: [Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2008]
Other Title(s): Science in the public health
Abstract: (CIT): This STEP Forum will highlight the state-of-the-art methods used by emergency medical personnel in saving people with life-threatening injuries. It will also cover the latest research in this area and the translation of scientific discoveries into advances in the practice of emergency medicine. Speakers. Rao R. Ivatury, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Emergency Medicine, and Physiology, Director of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Medical College of Virginia Hospital . Guy Clifton, M.D., Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Housto. Aurelio Rodriguez, M.D., Director, Division of Trauma, Director, Shock Trauma Center, Allegheny General Hospital Ronald G. Tompkins, M.D., Sc.D., Chief, Burns Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, John F. Burke Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School. Trooper First Class Jimmie Meurrens, B.S., NREMTP, Flight Paramedic/Instructor Maryland State Police Aviation Command, Baltimore, MD. First Sergeant Tobin T. Triebel, Flight Paramedic/Regional Supervisor Maryland State Police Aviation Command, Baltimore, MD Committee Members: Chairpersons: Christopher Hatch and Prabha Atreya Members: Jill Carrington, Dorothy Duke, Abby Ershow, Laura Moen, Michael Small.
Subjects: Emergency Medical Services--methods
Survivors
Wounds and Injuries
Publication Types: Government Publications
NLM Classification: WO 700
NLM ID: 101469025
CIT File ID: 14302
CIT Live ID: 6353
Permanent link: http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14302