Half of the trauma patients in emergency rooms got there because they hurt themselves after drinking.
After trading espionage for medicine after the war, he immigrated to America and helped pioneer emergency trauma care at hospitals across his adopted country.
It will be a final tribute for a warrior spy-turned-surgeon who spent his post-war years pioneering heart research and emergency trauma care from New York to Hawaii.
Of those injured, at least five or six were "trauma victims, " an emergency dispatcher said.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports there have been numerous emergency calls of trauma and injuries.
Some 60% of emergency room and trauma center visits are the result, directly or indirectly, of substance abuse.
Joyeuse became an expert in emergency treatment of trauma patients, as well as a surgeon and college professor.
Three months after that, the company expects the Federal Drug Administration to approve its use in medical environments like emergency rooms and trauma centers, says LifePoint CEO Linda Masterson .
The survivors will heal in time, but survivors, witnesses, and emergency personnel are all at risk from psychological trauma that can appear weeks or even months after the explosions.
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Geriatrician Bill Thomas, who helped Holy Cross design the seniors ER, says traditional emergency rooms were set up to be good at treating trauma and to treat it quickly.
Meanwhile, the helipad for emergency patients has had to be situated on the other side of the hospital to trauma care.
Dr. Emory Petrack, director of the pediatric emergency department at Fairview Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, says when it's a "truly critical emergency, " get to the nearest hospital. (Truly critical emergencies include severe pain, trauma with multiple injuries, and difficulty breathing).
Dr. Alasdair Conn, chief of emergency medicine, praised Boston's EMTs for equitably spreading patients across the city and not deluging any trauma center with too many critical patients.
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