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 ...

A small study finds that individualized prehab can dampen harmful immune responses and may reduce complications after an operation.

Live tissue training’, using an anaesthetised live animal substituted for a human patient for the practice of surgical skills, is a controversial topic. Although simulator technologies have developed ...

Surgical trauma 1: The systemic immune response to trauma: an overview of pathophysiology and treatment – by Professor Janet M Lord et al Improvements in the control of haemorrhage after trauma have ...

Nearly 40% of adults who undergo surgery experience serious financial hardship in the year after, according to a new ...

Central Maine Medical Center would have to remain a trauma center as a condition of the health system's acquisition.

Simulators have long been used for training surgeons and surgical teams, but traditional simulator platforms typically have a built-in limitation: they often simulate one or a limited number of ...

People might attribute midnight bouts of chest pain or waves of nausea to food poisoning, stress or a stubborn case of ...

Trauma Team has operations, but you won’t need speedy hands to battle space-age bacteria in this game. Operations in Trauma Team are grounded in reality… ever so slightly grounded in reality.

Maine Medical Center is a Level I trauma center, which provides comprehensive care for injured patients from prevention to ...