More articles about: Emergency & Trauma Care

A blood test in patients with diabetes reveals how levels of a protein associated with brain cell death could predict the risk of a future stroke.

Michigan Medicine experts highlighted new research during the keynote address and plenary session at the annual Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting.

A new study found that rural emergency department visits grew by 50 percent during a 12-year timeframe, suggesting that rural emergency departments serve as safety nets for many patients.

Firearms have been the No. 2 cause of death for at least 17 years, even as prevention efforts have cut the death rate in half from motor vehicle accidents, the No. 1 cause

While staying at University Hospital, one patient looked out his window to see the maize and blue helicopter taking off. Little did he know, he would soon meet the team.

New childfirearmsafety.org site offers free access to data, designed to accelerate prevention

Severe traumatic brain injury treatment based on brain tissue oxygen levels might help patients have better recoveries. BOOST 3 trials will begin in 2018.

After spending nearly three weeks trapped in a cave, the rescued soccer players and their coach face a tough yet hopeful road to recovery.

Intervention in the emergency department for stroke is complicated. An emergency department physician suggests actions care teams can take to be ready.

Get information on swimming safety and learn the truth about common swimming myths, including whether or not dry drowning is real and how long to wait after eating.

Galvanized by a unique funding opportunity, a cross-disciplinary team of an engineer and emergency medicine physicians combined forces to combat traumatic brain injury.

Read how by bringing chromatography technology bedside has made detecting acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and other life threatening lung diseases dramatically easier.

What happens inside an ambulance? A paramedic explains how young patients are transported to the hospital.

To increase patient satisfaction and lower costs in emergency departments, researchers interviewed former surgical patients who later visited EDs with nonemergent conditions.

Learn the difference between urgent care and ER and find out where to go when you need treatment for colds, fevers, broken bones, burns, infections and more.