Cedars-Sinai Newsroom (Trauma,Emergency Medicine)
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2024
January
25,
2024
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A new, 14-bed unit in Cedars-Sinai’s Department of Emergency Medicine has been established in honor of longtime supporters Walter and Shirley Wang. The Wangs’ generous $3 million gift created the Walter and Shirley Wang Treatment Area East, where …
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2023
December
13,
2023
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07:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The winter holiday season is a time to slow down, relax, and enjoy time with family and friends. That is, unless you’re a trauma surgeon.As a Level I trauma center, Cedars-Sinai offers advanced resources and technologies to serve Los Angeles County …
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November
07,
2023
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07:03 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has embarked on a three-year Emergency Department expansion project that will enhance access and efficiency as well as enable more specialty healthcare. When the project is complete, it will add 16,550 square feet to …
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August
09,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Climate change has supersized summer heat this year, with Southern California expected to again reach more than 100 degrees mid-month. Along with the rise in outdoor temperatures, physicians are seeing an increase in heat-related illnesses …
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April
11,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
When he’s not in the operating room, Galinos Barmparas, MD, associate trauma medical director in the Cedars-Sinai Department of Surgery, can often be found at the front of a classroom, demonstrating four simple steps that can help stop severe …
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2022
November
28,
2022
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08:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Sam Torbati, MD, co-chair and medical director of the Cedars-Sinai Emergency Department, has been named the Levin/Gordon Chair in Emergency Medicine in Honor of Joel M. Geiderman, MD.The endowed chair honor recognizes excellence in …
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November
23,
2022
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06:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Trauma Program has again received designation as a Level I Trauma Center―the highest level―from the American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma. The Level I designation, evaluated every three years, recognizes …
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November
08,
2022
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06:24 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The commercials said that if you joined, you could “Live the adventure.”They were for the U.S. Navy, and Gregory Jones, 16, took note.A few months earlier Jones had started his senior year at a new high school, many miles away from his South Side of …
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February
07,
2022
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
People in love often say two hearts beat as one, and the hearts of Tom and Therese Mazzei are definitely in sync. When 59-year-old Tom Mazzei traveled from Guam to the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai for treatment, Therese Mazzei, his wife of …
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2021
February
16,
2021
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06:02 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Like every nurse at the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai, Hannah Jaruszewski, RN, is skilled at treating patients–from starting an IV and assisting during an emergency procedure to sending patients home with clear …
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2020
October
12,
2020
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A new study shows that the vast majority of patients who visited the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai with suspected COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) symptoms, and who were treated and sent home to recuperate, …
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April
08,
2020
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07:40 AM
America/Los_Angeles
What is it like being an emergency medicine specialist on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic? The Cedars-Sinai Newsroom reached out to some of our healthcare heroes to find out.
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January
21,
2020
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06:29 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Early estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that since Oct. 1, 2019, when the federal agency began counting, as many as 8.5 million flu-related medical visits and up to 210,000 hospitalizations have been …
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2019
September
02,
2019
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15:10 PM
America/Los_Angeles
National Public Radio (NPR) recently interviewed Jonathan Vickburg, a licensed marriage and family therapist with the Cedars-Sinai Share & Care program, about ways people can cope after traumatic events like the recent shootings in El Paso, …
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September
01,
2019
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
In the wake of several recent mass shootings, National Public Radio (NPR) and Univision Los Angeles reporters interviewed Cedars Sinai experts who offered tools and coping strategies for anyone impacted by traumatic events.
During an …
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August
27,
2019
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15:02 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Good Morning America recently interviewed Sam Torbati, MD, medical director of the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai, about heat-related injuries after a 16-year-old basketball player died in Georgia while at a conditioning …
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August
19,
2019
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16:29 PM
America/Los_Angeles
"I can't begin talking about this public health crisis that we are facing in America without telling you my own story," said Joseph V. Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA, associate chief of Acute Care Surgery at The John Hopkins Hospital in …
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August
18,
2019
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08:46 AM
America/Los_Angeles
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt recently interviewed Sam Torbati, MD, medical director of the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai for a report on the rising rates of electric scooter-related injuries and deaths. …
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August
03,
2019
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06:33 AM
America/Los_Angeles
With a new school year quickly approaching, L.A. Parent magazine recently interviewed Suzanne Silverstein, MA, APR, founding director of the Cedars-Sinai Psychological Trauma Center and the Share & Care program, about how to help kids open up …
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July
08,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
In 1976, Joel Geiderman, MD, graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and decided he would take a leap of faith and specialize in a new area of medicine: emergency medicine.
Geiderman's choice was unique at the time. It …
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June
01,
2019
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11:13 AM
America/Los_Angeles
MDLinx recently interviewed Joel Geiderman, MD, FACEP, professor and co-chairman of Emergency Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, about a recently published article addressing the ethical and practical considerations of medical requests from friends and …
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2018
November
02,
2018
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05:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The end of daylight saving time—on Nov. 4 this year—could create a more dangerous evening commute for people on foot, as darkness falls earlier and drivers find it harder to see on the road, says a Cedars-Sinai trauma …
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August
15,
2018
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14:26 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Reporters from the Los Angeles Times and NBC News recently interviewed one of Cedars-Sinai’s top emergency medicine experts about the dangers posed by the trendy electric scooters for rent that are popping up in U.S. cities from coast to …
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July
16,
2018
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05:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Motorized scooters are making quite the splash in pedestrian-heavy cities from Santa Monica, California, to Washington, D.C. They’re ubiquitous, inexpensive to rent, easy to unload and fun.
They’re also dangerous. These small electric …
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July
06,
2018
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17:24 PM
America/Los_Angeles
With California in the grips of a dangerous, record-breaking heat wave, Sam Torbati, MD, co-chair and medical director of the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai, says a little awareness goes a long way toward preventing heat …
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