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Founded in 1940, Birmingham Accident Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom, was the world's first trauma center. Trauma centres grew into existence out of the realisation that traumatic injury is a disease process unto itself requiring specialised and experienced multidisciplinary treatment and specialised resources.
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center (also referred to simply as Shock Trauma) is a free-standing trauma hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and is part of the University of Maryland Medical Center. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the first facility in the world to treat shock . [ 3 ]
Verified Trauma Center program overview at American College of Surgeons This page was last edited on 23 February 2025, at 06:10 (UTC). Text is available ...
Trauma surgeon Dr. John Morris stepped into Vanderbilt University Medical Center to build its first trauma center from the ground-up 40 years ago, and he was filled with excitement for the newness ...
R Adams Cowley (July 25, 1917 – October 27, 1991) was an American surgeon considered a pioneer in emergency medicine and the treatment of shock trauma. [1] Called the "Father of Trauma Medicine", [2] he was the founder of the United States' first trauma center at the University of Maryland in 1958, after the United States Army awarded him $100,000 to study the effects of shock in wounded ...
Shocktrauma is a 1982 television film produced in Canada and syndicated nationally in the United States by sponsor General Foods.The screenplay by Stephen Kandel is based on the book by Jon Franklin and Alan Doelp, which details the true story of the first trauma center in America, founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
It is a Level I trauma center and the only designated Level I trauma center in the state of Hawaiʻi, [2] and first Level I in the Pacific. The Queen's Medical Center is also the first and only Comprehensive Stroke Center [3] in Hawai'i. It is located in downtown Honolulu, southwest of Interstate H-1.
The hospital is a primary stroke center and level I trauma center. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It has received numerous awards, including being named one of the Truven Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals 10 times since 2001, "America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention " by HealthGrades in 2017, 2018, and 2019 and receiving a Bariatric Surgery ...