Houston Chronicle

Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital expands to add more emergency trauma and surgery rooms. Here's why.

Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital has expanded its emergency center and surgical department to meet the needs of the ever-growing Katy area. COMING SOON: New retail, dining, and apartments are coming to ...
Kaleido Scope

Laverty, Robert, M.D.

Major Robert Laverty is an active duty Air Force trauma surgeon with the Special Operations Surgical Team (SOST) based out of UAB. He joined UAB in 2024, when he became a clinical assistant professor ...
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‘We had to decide quickly’: A pregnant runner, a crash, and the emergency surgery that saved her baby

On July 1, 2024, Nicole Clancy laced up her running shoes and headed out the door, just as she had done thousands of times before. Running had been part of her life for more than 16 years, something ...
Medical Xpress

Patients in least developed countries three times more likely to die after abdominal trauma surgery, study reveals

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 ...
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UAB Hospital re-verified as a Level I trauma center

UAB Hospital has been reverified as a Level I adult trauma center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma (COT) and remains the only ACS-Level I adult trauma center in the state ...