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 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…
History of Gender Equality Month The Women’s Rights Movement began on July 13, 1848, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton invited some of her friends for tea, and their talk turned toward the despondent situation of women and…
A new study by Public Health – Seattle & King County, found that one year after the King County Board of Health repealed its mandatory helmet law for bicyclists, helmet use in King County still…
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…
A new study published in the JAMA Network Open sought to identify EMS-perceived barriers and facilitators to providing high-quality prehospital care for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). Over 30 EMS providers were surveyed who…
This news release was written by Michael McCarthy and originally posted to UW Medicine Newsroom > > Commonly used systems to identify sepsis fail to detect many cases in patients initially admitted to hospital for…
The LIFESAVERS Conference is historically the world’s largest gathering of leaders and advocates in traffic safety. In 2021, an estimated 36,096 people died in motor vehicle crashes in the United States. LIFESAVERS Conference is recognized…