A growing number of adult trauma center hospitals are seeking American College of Surgeons (ACS) verification as Level II pediatric trauma centers. As someone who…
You put in all that work for the site visit from the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Your trauma program staff practically halted work on…
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for trauma have officially been around since the late 1990s. The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) was a…
About a year ago, I became the trauma program manager at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, a Level II trauma center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. When I…
Mass casualty incidents (MCIs) seem to strike at random. That is one reason why these incidents — particularly mass shootings — are so frightening. But…
Peter Rhee, MD, FACS, has been named medical director of the Marcus Trauma Center at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, according to a press release.…