The United States is a world leader in gun violence, far surpassing other high income nations like Chile, Canada, and Portugal, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Guns are ...

As we head into summer, we’re naturally spending more time outdoors or on projects around the house. At Pardee, we also see an increase in minor injuries with patients coming into our urgent care ...

WASHINGTON — Quickly identifying and treating serious wounds is an age-old problem that’s killed countless soldiers, but it could see a solution in new technology that uses embedded sensors to detect, ...

For moderately severe open wounds, the safest and most effective over-the-counter (OTC) antiseptics include iodine, biguanides, and peroxides. Antiseptics are chemical solutions applied topically to ...

A soldier suffers a serious gunshot wound on a remote battlefield or a machinist has a work accident and gets stuck in traffic on the way to the hospital. Secondary, uncontrolled bleeding from ...

As outlined in their recent publication in Biomaterials Science, researchers from the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, (TIBI), have developed an injectable, temperature-sensitive, ...

Schools, colleges, emergency services in training (police & fire), and community groups are ideal settings to teach bleeding control alongside CPR and defibrillator awareness. For a young person ...

Designed for applications where emergency medical treatment must be administered to patients at risk of bleeding out — such ...