Hard-charging Therese Frentz never did anything half-way. High school valedictorian. Number one seed on the varsity tennis team. Member of the regional championship volleyball team. Prom queen. Top of her ROTC class at the University of Florida, she was selected to...
Today, trauma surgeons around the country are often able to save patients who may have been lost two decades ago—patients like Nicholas Velasquez. Nicholas, a six-year old San Antonio boy, held on to life by a thread after a drunk driver slammed head-on into his...
Derek McGinnis, a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy, was dispatched to pick up wounded marines during the 2004 Fallujah Offensive in Iraq. As his Humvee ambulance paused on the street, it was broadsided by a suicide driver, whose vehicle exploded on impact and ripped...
(SAN ANTONIO) – The National Trauma Institute (NTI), a non-profit organization dedicated to funding trauma research in the United States, launched a powerful new awareness and giving campaign in the heart of New York City today. While the images in the 15-second...
Roberto Espinosa had a lot of luck and one of the best trauma teams in Texas on his side when, on October 7, 2002, the bottom literally dropped out of his life. An ordinary ride in a restaurant freight elevator turned into a nightmare when a probable hydraulic fluid...
