Tag Archive for ‘trauma’
Twister
Remember, Twister may be a fun-filled game, but a tornado is a life-threatening climatic occurrence.
Call a cab
In spite of all the education, public awareness campaigns, and outreach programs, drinking and driving continues to be a problem that our society faces each day. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration’s Traffic Safety Facts, an alcohol-impaired driving fatality occurred every 48 minutes in 2009. That same year, […]
World Trauma Congress 2012 will take place in Rio de Janeiro, August 22-25
The 2012 World Trauma Congress (WTC) will meet in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 22 to 25, according to WTC president, Raul Coimbra, MD, PhD, FACS. Health care professionals from around the world will meet at the Congress to discuss vital aspects of trauma care and strategic actions for improving the quality and scientific knowledge […]
Smarter than the average bear
The word “bear” is derived from the old English word bera, which belongs to a family of names for bears originating from an adjective meaning brown. In Germanic culture, the bear symbolized the warrior. Bears are found in ancient literature, folk songs, mythology, legends, children’s songs, cartoons, on the shelves of your local toy store, […]
A crisis in the ED: Liability protection needed STAT
My son and I were recently involved in a motor vehicle crash. The car in which we were riding was a total loss. As a pediatric surgeon and an instructor in the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Advanced Trauma Life Support® program for more than 20 years, I was able to quickly assess that neither […]
Seventy-five years of banking
Banking activities date back to the second millennium BC, when the Code of Hammurabi (one of the earliest known formal laws) contained written standards of practice relating to financial transactions. Ancient Egypt also had banking arrangements that related to grain harvests and storage. Although these early transactions pertained to deposits of cattle, grain, and, later, […]
Annual Pediatric Report 2011: Fatal at any age
The 2011 Annual Report of the National Trauma Data Bank® (NTDB) is an updated analysis of the largest aggregation of U.S. and Canadian trauma registry data that has ever been assembled.
