The lectureship became endowed last year, and was established to fund lecturers in the field of trauma care. Cannon is professor of surgery and the director of the Penn Acute Research Collaboration.

Before dawn, the ER is already loud. The doors slide open, another gunshot victim arrives, and fluorescent lights reveal what violence leaves behind. In a hospital's trauma bay, Dr. Alexander L.

Mortality after emergency abdominal surgery is more than three times higher in the least developed countries compared to the most developed. Yet among those who undergo surgery, injuries tend to be ...

Four new fellows are set to join the UAB Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery this August as part of the 2025-2026 Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship: Kemp Anderson, M.D., Erin Burton, ...

Over allegations of staffing shortages, the Illinois Department of Public Health has revoked Mercy Medical Center in Aurora’s Level II Trauma Center designation. Previously, Mercy Medical Center in ...

The '90210' alum recalled how his "intense stomach pains" ended up being a "small intestinal blockage" — requiring an emergency operation in 2022 Matt Lanter/Instagram; Danielle Del Valle/Getty Matt ...

Obesity is associated with longer operative times and higher odds of complications than normal body mass index (BMI) in patients undergoing abdominal surgery. Although surgeons encounter challenges ...

A new study, published today in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, tested whether a set of interventions to keep lungs expanded before, during, and after abdominal surgery could lower the risk of ...

Dr. Brian Y. Chang (Medicine): A 62-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of abdominal pain. Two years before the current presentation, postprandial abdominal pain developed. One year ...