Originally posted to UW’s The Daily Concussions, once considered limited to high-contact sports like rugby and football, have now been shown to affect individuals of all ages and walks of life. Older adults, young children,…
Originally posted to UW’s The Daily Concussions, once considered limited to high-contact sports like rugby and football, have now been shown to affect individuals of all ages and walks of life. Older adults, young children,…
Washington State is the first state to adopt a law regulating when and how students can return to sports after having a concussion. Seattle’s KUOW interviewed Dr. Monica Vavilala on the push for lawmakers to…
Various members of HIPRC were awarded a UW Population Health Initiative Pilot Research Grant. Learn more about these projects below: Tier 1 Pilot Grants Originally posted to UW Population Health Initiative’s Website The Population Health…
The HIPRC Outreach Core held its second WE Stop the Bleed (WE STB) training session with Casa Latina on March 20, 2022. Members of HIPRC’s Outreach Core, alongside Seattle Police Department, held a cultural adaptation…
The Harborview Injury & Violence Prevention Center (HIPRC) has established the Anna Pell Endowment. Through the generous gift of two wonderful donors, HIPRC will be able to use this endowment to support our training program…
Research on crime patterns reveals that crime is concentrated at relatively few micro-places (addresses, intersections, street segments, and businesses), it tends to be stable over time, and changes at a small proportion of locations can…
Concussion is the most common form of traumatic brain injury (TBI), and, while attention often focuses more on effects in young athletes, older adults are at higher risk for severe outcomes following a concussion. “Falls…
Care transitions after trauma hospitalization can be associated with miscommunication or incomplete transfer of information, which has the potential to lead to unintentional persistent opioid prescribing or other deficiencies in post-trauma pain care. Decreasing exposure…
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a beneficial but scare resource for patients with severe respiratory failure and has variable allocation across the United States. Similar to the ‘chain of survival’ necessary for survival after out-of-hospital…
HIPRC Core Faculty, Staff, and Trainees are excited to attend this year’s Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) conference happening Monday, April 17th through Wednesday, April 19th in Denver, Colorado. Our attendees…