From rapid trauma assessments to spinal motion restriction, prehospital trauma care is evolving with evidence-based protocols and structured training tools. Updated guidelines help EMS teams make ...

Zero preventive trauma deaths. Is it possible, and do first responders hold the key to this lofty goal? Trauma accounts for at least 200,000 U.S. deaths per year. Recognizing this, in its 2016 report, ...

I love to make things easy to remember and repeat, because our job requires us to remember more than we have the ability to. We all learned that the ABC acronym (airway, breathing, circulation) is the ...

Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) trains EMTs, paramedics, and first responders to deliver rapid, effective trauma care before hospital arrival. By applying structured assessments, prioritizing ...

Newly developed consensus definitions for complete and accurate Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (FAST) and extended FAST (E-FAST) evaluations may better guide clinical decision-making ...

Enduring and interlocking conflicts across the Middle East over the last 25 years have generated injuries on a large scale.