I would like to take this a bit further and clear the air in trauma assessment. When the U.S. military started operations in Afghanistan, something simplistic was created to aid combat medics in ...

patients do not have to have a history of trauma to be seen. RCFC has three components: Service - Resiliency Center for Assessment and Treatment: Pediatric Occupational Therapy and outpatient youth ...

Consider using eFAST (extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma) to augment clinical assessment only if a specialist team equipped with ultrasound is immediately available and onward ...

Most of their work is done at the Children’s Trauma Assessment Center (CTAC) on the campus of Western Michigan University. But much of it also is done in Wayne County, which is home to more ...

About 23 years ago, Henry and four other Kalamazoo-area professionals launched the Southwest Michigan Child Trauma Assessment Center at Western Michigan University. At the time, few people knew ...

A significant offering from Western Michigan University’s Children’s Trauma Assessment Center in the Unified Clinics is trauma informed training. Not only do staff train whole organizations nationwide ...

“And it’s important to give a trauma assessment because just because there was a traumatic event does not mean everybody is suffering from trauma. So, to better serve and to better direct the ...

working closely with local trauma units. The initial assessment of a patient with major trauma is directed at rapid identification of life‑threatening or life‑changing injuries. Clinicians conduct a ...