A little-known type of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) arises as an aftereffect of a traumatic surgery or medical procedure. Imagine waking up from anesthesia during a surgical procedure, ...

Getty Images It is imperative to consider the potential life-saving benefits of IVC ligation despite the higher incidence of associated complications. In the largest multicenter study of factors ...

Baylor College of Medicine surgeons provide important evidence-based care for some of Houston’s most acutely injured patients. Research in the division is lead by Dr. Jennifer Leonard, an NIH-funded ...

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 ...

UAB Hospital has been reverified as a Level I adult trauma center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma (COT) and remains the only ACS-Level I adult trauma center in the state ...

The UAB Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery honored survivors of traumatic injury and their families, as well as first responders and healthcare professionals, at the second annual UAB Heroes ...

BANGKOK - Rajavithi Hospital has completed a major first in Thailand's public health system, successfully removing a pancreatic tumor in a 12-year-old girl ...