It’s Time to Fund MISSION ZERO
It’s been five years since the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) released a report titled, “A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury.” Having led a model for military-civilian collaboration at the Army Trauma Training Center in Miami, Fla., I was invited […]
Paying Tribute to Neurosurgery’s Military Veterans
Veterans Day is an appropriate opportunity to pay tribute to the contributions of the many military neurosurgeons who have made significant contributions and sacrifices. This storied history is filled with contributions from many of our field’s current and former leaders. We thought today our Neurosurgery Blog readership might want to revisit some of the profiles […]
Pediatric Trauma: Number One Killer of Children in the United States
Guest post from Representative Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) Member, House Energy and Commerce Committee and Co-Chair of the Pediatric Trauma Caucus Pediatric trauma is the number one killer of children in the United States. One person dies from an injury every three minutes in the United States. Because children have significant anatomical and physiological differences from […]
Faces of Neurosurgery: On Track to Heal in a Disaster
Kristopher T. Kimmell, MD Neurosurgical Resident, University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY Millions of viewers were glued to the news when an Amtrak train en route from Washington, D.C. to New York City derailed outside Philadelphia on May 12, 2015. There were 238 passengers and five crew members on the train. As a result of […]
Hospital Transfer of Neuro-trauma Patients Increases Survival Rate
Guest post from Kimon Bekelis, MD Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Value reigns supreme in the world of healthcare delivery today. Value has been defined easily as: COST/QUALITY A recent landmark study tackles the difficult question on the value of expensive helicopter transport in the care of traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. To fully […]
Trauma Legislation Passed by House Committee
There are significant gaps in our trauma and emergency healthcare delivery systems, and trauma is the leading killer of Americans under the age of 44. Over the years, the AANS and CNS have worked tirelessly to urge Congress to provide full funding for the trauma and emergency care regionalization programs, which would support grants to […]