American College of Surgeons Commits to Preventing 30,000 Trauma Deaths per Year Trauma leaders and experts at the 2016 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) committed to work with partners to achieve zero preventable military and... Read more
HTE correspondent Marty Kauchak visited the Aeromedical Simulation Training and Education Center at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia on October 7. The center’s expanding, immersive training environment is sustaining the Air Force aeromedical... Read more
Working to ensure children receive appropriate pediatric care for their injuries, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) updated its policy statement, “Management of Pediatric Trauma,” online and in the August 2016 issue of Pediatrics. The report... Read more
The American Medical Association’s (AMA) House of Delegates (HoD) approved a resolution introduced by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and other medical societies to train more professional first responders (i.e., police and firefighters) and... Read more
The 194th Intelligence Squadron and the 194th Medical Group with the Washington Air National Guard conducted a mass casualty care exercise at American Lake at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on June 8, 2016 in support of Cascadia Rising, a test of Washington... Read more
