Recognizing the unique challenges and increasing incidence of trauma in the geriatric population, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has announced a comprehensive set of guidelines designed to ...

The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma’s recommendations for the triage of trauma patients may not be possible to achieve, according to research published in the Archives of Surgery.

Traumatic injury is the leading cause of death among people under age 45, but if trauma physicians could deliver plasma to these injury victims within minutes of their arrival in the emergency room, ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The American College of Surgeon (ACS) Committee on Trauma has verified Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel as a Level 1 pediatric trauma center, making it ...

One in three severely injured patients in the United States are first treated at Level III or non-trauma centers; of those, about half do not get transferred to higher-level trauma centers when they ...

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - The Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) verified the trauma centers at Covenant Medical Center and Covenant Children's Hospital as Level II Trauma ...

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has named Asheville’s Mission Hospital a Level I trauma center, making it the only medical facility in Western North Carolina to receive the designation. The ...