Tag: trauma

For patients who need to receive blood urgently, it’s common to be transfused with Type O-negative blood (the universal donor type). But receiving blood that’s an exact match is even better. ...

From an early age, Megan Reynolds ’19N has had a passion for helping people. Her path eventually led her to Mexico to provide health care at a refugee camp.

Timothy O’Connor and Amy Niertit (Emergency Medicine) demonstrates use of an intubation box created by engineers at the University of Rochester as a safeguard for treating COVID-19 patients. ...

An Emergency Medicine team from UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital has returned from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.The last of the 14 SMH Emergency Medicine staff ...

David Rakel, M.D., will deliver the 2019 Sischy Lecture on Monday, October 28 at 6 p.m. at the Bloch Alumni and Advancement Center, 300 East River Road, Rochester, New York. His talk, “The Human ...

Researchers found that no matter where the head gets hit the force is translated into a single region of the brain known as the midbrain. Imaging this part of the brain may help to diagnose injury ...

Thirteen individuals and four teams were honored by the University of Rochester Medical Center Board for excellence in their roles and the superior care given to their patients and colleagues each ...

The professor of Surgery, Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics joined the faculty in 2001.

Rochester’s home-away-from-home for seriously ill patients will get a boost from the community during the “And the Beat Goes On…” benefit dinner for Harbor House of Rochester.

For the first time in the U.S., a blood test will be available to help doctors determine if people who’ve experienced a blow to the head could have a traumatic brain injury such as brain bleeding or ...