Accidents/Injuries
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Even as BSE takes center stage, people are dying of preventable diseases by the hundreds of thousands. Many of us take unreasonable risks with our health that are far more dangerous than the likelihood of eating contaminated beef, says Dr. Russell Robertson.
Dr. Daniel DeBehnke notes that even though an aging population plays a role in emergency room volume, ERs are now delivering care - to people of all ages - that used to be provided elsewhere.
Instead of allowing fear to overwhelm us, perhaps we can find ways to use the fear-provoking events in our lives to bring about positive changes in our own behaviors.
The decision to receive or to forgo CPR can be fraught with difficulties, ambiguities and emotion. Given the choice, some critically or chronically ill patients opt out.
Dr. Dennis Maiman discusses the work of the CIREN Center and its role in investigating crashes that involve serious injury. "We're becoming stronger and stronger within the national program because of the scientific capabilities of our team," says Dr. Maiman.
Discussing death and end-of-life medical treatments are not something we look forward to, yet it's far better to have the right answers before they are asked in the context of a critical illness.
The mission of the Firearm Injury Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin is to reduce firearm injuries and deaths, a mission on which gun owners and non-owners find agreement. The Center’s programs are based on a public health approach: better data can lead to safer guns and fewer injuries.
The “baby boom” generation born between 1946 and 1964 is discovering middle age, and along with it knee problems made worse – or at least more obvious – by lifestyles that stay vigorous well into the later years.
Most of us have had an injury or an illness that makes us stop and wonder: Should I go to the hospital? Emergency Department physician Dr. Daniel DeBehnke has some common-sense advice for us.
About 450,000 people in the US live with SCI. There are about 10,000 new SCIs every year; the majority of them (82%) involve young males between the ages of 16 and 30.
Patients who are treated at the Froedtert and Medical College Spinal Cord Injury Center recover more fully than patients at other facilities, functioning at a level that is 33.6% higher than the national average.
A startling increase in motorcycle fatalities is causing concern, particularly the new statistics for riders over age 40. “The older the driver, the more potential they have for a bad outcome from a crash,” says Dr. Stephen Hargarten.
Diagnostic advances and “hands on” research collaborations are leading to effective prevention and improved treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Cuts that require stitches, broken bones, and increasingly, asthma attacks bring children into the emergency room at all hours. But how does a parent or caretaker decide whether a child needs to make that visit?
Alcohol-related auto accidents kill or injure someone in Wisconsin every 74 minutes. With the holiday party season in full swing, it’s a good time to think about the possible consequences of impaired driving and how to avoid them.
Recognizing the devastating impact of domestic abuse, health care providers have in recent years multiplied their efforts to identify, treat and support victims.
Humans are fallible. Every one of us knows this, yet somehow we expect doctors and nurses to be different.
Chronic pain – continuous pain lasting longer than six months – affects an estimated 30 to 50 million Americans. As a result, pain management has become a focus of research and a fast-growing medical subspecialty.
Virtually any repetitive activity over time, whether work related or due to a sports activity, can fray the tendons and lead to a tear.
Von Willebrand Disease (VWD) is a hereditary bleeding disorder that involves a protein in the blood called von Willebrand factor, or VWF, which helps our blood to clot.
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