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Patients in least developed countries three times more likely to die after abdominal trauma surgery, study reveals

Mortality after emergency abdominal surgery is more than three times higher in the least developed countries compared to the most developed. Yet among those who undergo surgery, injuries tend to be ...

International trauma analysis finds big transfusion differences, with whole blood common in low-resource hospitals

A new international study published in eClinicalMedicine has mapped global blood transfusion practices for life-threatening abdominal injuries, highlighting significant variation in care worldwide and ...
Kaleido Scope

UAB Trauma faculty had strong showing at AAST in Boston

UAB was well represented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery, with five faculty serving as presenters, ...
Baylor College of Medicine

Trauma, Bariatric and Acute Care Surgery Healthcare

The Division of Trauma, Bariatric and Acute Care Surgery meets the surgical needs of the tens of thousands of patients visiting our affiliated hospitals each year from the Houston region and around ...
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Preventing postoperative rebleeding in intracerebral hemorrhage surgery

Background Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the stroke subtype with the highest mortality and disability rates, and early hematoma evacuation is crucial for improving prognosis. Compared to ...