What is a Trauma Center?
What is a Trauma Center & how does a Level 1 Center differ from a Level 2, 3, or 4? Take a trip back in time and explore where and how it all started.
Penetrating Cardiac Injury
Let’s explore a case of a single stab wound to the anterior upper chest within the cardiac box. How would you approach this patient’s care if the initial clinical exam was considered “normal,” with the exception of the obvious wound?
Wound Care & Management
Approximately 96,000 split thickness wound graf (STSG) procedures are performed each year in the USA. Check out the amazing transformation of this second degree wound to the leg and 4th degree to the buttock.
Burn Resuscitation & Management
How does the formula for fluid resuscitation differ from Adult vs Pediatric vs Electrical burns? Dr. Sucher has useful tips for burn prevention that pertains to everyone!
Burns
First degree, second degree, third degree – oh my! Do you know how the care management differs for a first vs second vs third degree burn?
Geriatric Rib Fixation
Did you know that less than 1% of geriatric patients are offered a muscle sparing minimally invasive thoracotomy rib fixation versus medical management?
