CNTR Blog
MIMIC Study Breaks New Ground: Geospatial Mapping of Trauma System Response Resources
The Multi-Institutional Multidisciplinary Injury Mortality Investigation in the Civilian Pre-Hospital Environment (MIMIC) project aims to determine whether injured people who died before reaching a hospital had potentially survivable injury. But before this Department...
Rate of Death from Falls Increasing for the Aged
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), U.S. emergency departments treat approximately 3 million U.S. residents aged 65 and older for fall-related injuries. In the ten years between 2007 and 2016, "the rate of deaths from falls increased...by an average of...
New Love for Life Follows McGinnes’ Attempt at Death
In 2010, Christen McGinnes lost her relentless optimism. A punishing wave of setbacks had beaten her down to the point where ending her own life seemed to be the only avenue for relief. A fall down a staircase left her with a traumatic brain injury that altered her...
May is National Trauma Awareness Month
April 30, 2018--This May marks 30 years of National Trauma Awareness Month. Initiated in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan, the annual month-long educational effort recognizes trauma as a major public health problem. Organizations dedicated to trauma injury prevention,...
Trauma Surgeons Publish Strategy for Firearm Injury Prevention
April 23, 2018--In an article published in the Journal of Trauma, Drs. Ronald Stewart, Eileen Bulger, Michael Rotondo and Deborah Kuhls lay out an approach to address the rising toll of firearm injury that steers clear of political and personal pitfalls. Freedom with...
Omnibus FY18 Spending Bill Includes Additional $10 Million for Trauma Clinical Research Program
April 12, 2018 – In the fiscal year 2018 Omnibus Appropriations Bill signed into law in March, Congress appropriated additional funding for a trauma clinical research network. Congress added $10 million in the Defense Health Program Research, Development, Test &...
Sue Baldissari Works for a Better Normal
Following the car crash that left Susan Baldissari permanently injured, she endured 15 surgeries over seven years as well as extensive physical therapy, both in a rehabilitation hospital and as an outpatient. Twenty years later, Sue knows she needs another ankle...
Learn How to Save a Life
While March 31st was the official "Stop the Bleed Day," members of the public are urged to learn bleeding control techniques whenever they are able. Developed by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, the Stop the Bleed program trains bystanders to be...
Four U.S. House Members Lead Bipartisan Push for National Trauma Research Action Plan
March 19, 2018--Following a lobbying effort by members of the Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR) in February, House members Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Will Hurd (TX-23), Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02) and Joseph Kennedy III (MA-04) took the lead on a request for...
National Trauma Research Repository to Launch in 2018
The National Trauma Research Repository (NTRR) is now under rapid development, with a targeted launch window of early summer 2018. The new data repository will be capable of capturing all the research data from clinical studies--not just trauma patient medical...
Trauma Coalition Requests Funding for a National Trauma Action Plan
February 6, 2018--Today in Washington, D.C. 33 trauma research advocates from across the country are meeting with their members of Congress to advocate for the creation of a National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP). As recommended in the 2016 National Academies of...
Committee on Trauma Makes Argument for a National Trauma Research Action Plan
In its second installment of a two-part series, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma published online its rationale for federal support of a National Trauma Action Plan that combines the assets and expertise of America's civilian and military trauma...
Trauma Team Training Minimized Death Count in Texas Shooting
A full-length feature story published in the El Paso Times yesterday recounts the experiences of trauma surgeons at San Antonio's University Hospital as they worked to save the lives of nine victims of the Sutherland Springs mass shooting in early November. The trauma...
NTI Board Member Dr. Eileen Bulger to Lead the ACS Committee on Trauma
Eileen Bulger, MD, a member of the NTI Board of Directors, was recently appointed as Chair of the American College of Surgeons Committee of Trauma (ACS COT). Dr. Bulger has served on ACS trauma committees since 2003, working first in regional committees as the state...
NTI Launches Advocacy & Patient Engagement Committee to Amplify Voices of the Injured
In an effort to better understand the voice of the trauma patient as it relates to advocacy and the research agenda across the spectrum of care, NTI launched its Advocacy & Patient Engagement Committee this fall. NTI Board Member Dr. Martin Croce, Chief of Trauma...