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Videos
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Increase of Influenza B Seen with This Year's Outbreak
Every flu season is unique. The 2019-2020 outbreak features more cases of influenza B, the viral strain that usually emerges later in the season.
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How to Support Sexual Assault Survivors
Emily Dworkin, senior fellow at the UW School of Medicine, discusses how to best support a survivor as they work through their PTSD.
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This video provides a step-by-step demonstration of how to best use a spine board when treating and immobilizing children and infants.
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This video provides an overview of how to fit a Cervical Collar for pediatric patients.
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This video provides an overview of important things to consider when dealing Pediatric Head Anatomy in a trauma situation.
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This video provides an overview of how to use the Broselow Tape. The Broselow tape is a standardized, color coded, pediatric emergency measuring tape. This tape provides you with a rapid estimate of a child’s weight based on their recumbent length.
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Geriatric Traumatic Brain Injury
Hilaire Thompson, PhD discusses prevention and treatment of geriatric traumatic brain injury.
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Pre-hospital Management with Dr. Saman Arbabi
Saman Arbabi, MD, discusses the importance of prehospital care and how it affects outcomes of patients with Traumatic Brain Injuries.
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ECMO Used for Life Saving Treatment at Harborview Medical Center
Eileen Bulger, MD, Chief of Trauma at Harborview Medical Center, discusses how the ECMO provides life saving treatment.
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Geriatric Traumatic Brain Injury
Hilaire Thompson, PhD, discusses the epidemiology of geriatric TBI in the US and implications for injury prevention and management.
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Development of a Comprehensive Emergency Medical Service: The Seattle Story
Hugh M. Foy, MD provides an understanding of the coincident factors that led to our EMS system.
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Prehospital Management of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
Saman Arbabi, MD, presents Prehospital Management of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury at the "Hot Topics & Best Practice in Adult TBI" webinar.
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What Everyone Should Know About Child Trauma
Georganna Sedlar, PhD, discusses the effects of trauma on youth, the role of avoidance, and how trauma treatment works.
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Firearm Violence and Injury Prevention
Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH, discusses the magnitude of the problem of gun violence in the US and aims to educate providers about what they can do to reduce the risk of gun violence in their patients.
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Color Coding for Pediatric Trauma Care, Resuscitation and Disaster Preparedness
Mary King, MD, discusses the importance of color coding for pediatric trauma care, resuscitation and disaster preparedness.
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Thromboelastography & Coagulation Management in Trauma
John R. Hess, MD, discusses how the coagulation system works and why it fails in trauma.
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Pelvic Sheeting for Immobilization
This video from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA demonstrates proper technique for traumatic pelvic fracture immobilization using a bedsheet.
This curriculum is designed primarily for inpatient providers (physicians and nurses) of early care to injured children. It has been specifically designed as a resource to allow providers in adult-designated trauma centers and pediatric-designated trauma centers in Washington state to meet the "Pediatric Education Requirement" (PER) developed by the Washington State Emergency Medical Services and Trauma System, and defined in Washington Administrative Code (WAC 246-976-700). However, the curriculum is also of potential value to all pediatric trauma care providers, both in the inpatient and prehospital settings.
Protocols
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Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment (SBIRT)
Screening, brief intervention, and referral (SBIRT) can be used for both alcohol and drug issues.
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Initial Management of Traumatic Brain Injury
Algorithm for the initial management of traumatic brain injury.
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Pediatric Consultation and Transfer Guidelines
This document contains guidelines of when to transfer the critically injured and/or ill pediatric patient.
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Initial Management of Major Pelvic Fractures
To ensure life threatening injuries are identified appropriately, a systematic approach should be taken when assessing patients with pelvic fractures.
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The decision to transfer to the next higher level of care must be made rapidly based on the physician's assessment and clinical expertise.
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Geriatric Trauma Management Guidelines
This document serves to consolidate recommendations from existing guidelines to provide concise, evidence-based, expert panel rated lists of protocols and practices to improve trauma care among elderly patients.
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Head Injury in Anticoagulated Patients
To rapidly identify intracranial hemorrhage in anticoagulated patients and reduce the time from presentation to reversal of anticoagulation.
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Geriatric Trauma Care Guideline
Early aggressive trauma care has been shown to improve outcome for geriatric patients with survivable injuries.
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Trauma Team Activation Criteria
This Trauma Team Activation Criteria Guideline defines the minimum patient criteria for full or modified trauma team activation.
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Initial Evaluation & Management of Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury
A trauma evaluation and management guideline for initial evaluation and management of blunt thoracic aortic injury (TAI).
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Evaluation and Management of Blunt Abdominal Trauma
Abdominal trauma remains a leading cause of mortality in all age groups. A systematic approach should be taken when assessing the trauma patient.
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Cervical Spine Injury Evaluation
To provide guidance for determining if a trauma patient has a cervical injury; adult and pediatric algorithms.
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Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy in Sepsis Based on Suspected Primary Source
Recommendations based on local microbiology and antimicrobial resistance patterns
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Sepsis Transfer Center Stabilization Protocol
Clinical recommendations developed to aid in the early identification and management of suspected infection
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This protocol is in the interest of facilitating rapid, safe and expeditious transfer while maximizing the chances for survival
Information & Resources
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Wound Healing in Mucous Tissues Could Ward off AIDS
Wound-repair capabilities preserve tissue integrity during early infection and might prevent inflammation that underlies immune exhaustion.
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Injury & Prevention Center Now a CDC-Funded Injury Control Research Center
UW Medicine’s Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center has been awarded a $4.2 million grant to promote injury prevention and control by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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UW Medicine is a world-class academic health system. We accomplish our mission—improving the health of the public—by providing patient care, educating tomorrow’s health professionals and conducting leading-edge medical discovery.
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Across Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho, Harborview Medical Center is the only facility providing Level I trauma services – the most advanced care, available 24/7 – to adult and pediatric patients.
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Airlift Northwest is the pre-eminent provider of air medical transport services in the Pacific Northwest, dedicated to providing safe, efficient air medical care to critically ill and injured infants, children and adults.
Research & Publications
