When a patient undergoes surgery, either in a hospital or a surgical center, the surgeon may use electricity to cut through the tissue. Electrosurgery has a number of benefits, but one dangerous and significant drawback: the risk of an operating room fire. Though OR fires are rare – there are about 650 a year, and [...]
With millions of truckers employed in the United States, it is important that their safety – and the safety of others – is seriously considered. With notoriously lengthy trips on tight schedules, truckers sometimes sacrifice their own comfort and need for rest so they can complete their dispatch on time and avoid possible financial penalties [...]
Perhaps the only greater pain of losing a child is knowing that the loss could have been prevented. Stillbirths happen more often than we might believe, and education on when to be concerned about it is not as thorough as it should be. The concerns of mothers-to-be are too often overlooked or waved-off, dismissing them [...]
There are millions of people employed as truck drivers in the United States, and that means millions of trucks on the roads and highways. Trucks are notoriously difficult to maneuver around as they are large and take up a lot of space; when passing them other drivers generally want to move by as soon as [...]
When we go to the hospital or to our doctor, we trust that we are in good hands. These professionals have to go through years of education and training to be where they are now, and they are the only people the public really has available to treat us for our injuries and maladies. Most [...]
Falling down icy steps or getting into a car accident is a traumatic experience, but it is doubly so when you’re pregnant. Not only are you concerned about the injuries to yourself, but to your unborn baby as well. Trauma to a fetus while the mother is pregnant could just cause temporary injuries, but life-long [...]
It’s no secret that carrying and delivering a baby is a miracle, even by today’s standards. Having a healthy and safe delivery is every parent’s dream. Complications are not uncommon, though, and can often be treated and dealt with in a safe manner. One such complication includes breech deliveries, and while breech deliveries result in [...]
The passage of the Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act of 2022 has been cause for celebration. For the first time in decades, our armed forces will finally be able to get the care they need for the injuries they sustained from toxic exposure. Most of the news coverage has concerned burn [...]
While some pregnancies are generally smooth and the baby is delivered without complications, there are many pregnancies that are not. This makes pregnancy a complex and stressful period, where not only the woman’s life is in danger, but also the infant’s. One of the most common, yet dangerous, complications of a pregnancy is preeclampsia. There [...]
It might be fair to say that when most people consider concussions, they think of injuries from vehicle accidents or slip and falls. They might also think of professional football players who are tackled every game, their heads bouncing off the ground or off of each other. There is another group of people, however, who [...]
