Forty-seven multidisciplinary medical and injury prevention professional organizations participated in the Second Summit on Firearm Injury Prevention in Chicago. The Second Medical Summit on Firearm Injury Prevention convened on September 10-11 at the American College…
Dr. Kushang Patel, HIPRC Research Core Director and UW Research Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, was recently selected as a site Principal Investigator for the clinical trial study titled Biomarkers for Evaluation of…
Written By: Sydney Parker, foundry10 On a weekday morning last spring, a health sciences instructor at a local college put a dozen eggs in a pot to boil. She was not preparing breakfast. She was…
Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center’s 2022 Virtual INSIGHT Program Symposium highlighted intern research projects focused on injury & violence prevention topics. Over the summer, our INSIGHT Program interns worked for eight weeks with…
The UW Medicine EMS & Trauma Conference is back in person this year September 12-13, 2022 at the DoubleTree Suites (Seatac Airport). This two-day, multidisciplinary conference highlights trauma care throughout the continuum including pre-hospital, emergency,…
Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center (HIPRC) and Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH) have a long and productive history of impactful partnerships to prevent injury and violence, most of which have included impact on regional or…
One of the most frequent complications of modern surgery is healthcare-associated infection. Researchers at the University of Washington and University of Chicago have published a new review focused on the prevention of surgical site infections….
Extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) are tools for preventing suicide and other forms of violence; some states allow civilians to file ERPO petitions to remove firearms from someone expressing concerning behavior. New research led by…
A new study published June 2022 in the Journal of Transfusion surveys the immediate availability of blood products within the WA Regional Trauma System. The study team surveyed all 82 trauma centers certified by the…
A new study examined the racial and ethnic differences in adolescents’ fear of attacks or harm at school after adjusting for differences in violent victimization prevalence. Researchers from Penn State University and the University of…