As the cold front settles in on Baltimore, the snow begins to fall, and the roads begin to freeze. On this chilly Friday night, bartenders are closing tabs, drunks are falling over, and triggers are being squeezed. As darkness looms, the revolving front doors of Shock Trauma make not a whirling sound, but the “cha-ching” [...]
Archive for January, 2011
It’s incredibly difficult to be a good surgical resident when it’s the exact opposite of anything I self identify with. Working in the TRU is a lot of fun, and in my opinion it’s the reason the Air Force sends us to Shock Trauma. Unfortunately, call is only every third night, although working more than [...]
The Trauma Resuscitation Unit, or “TRU,” as it’s known, is probably the number one place you don’t want to find yourself after a night of barhopping or drunk driving in Baltimore. The TRU is kind of like an emergency department, except the only rooms are trauma bays. Each bay comes stocked with everything a team [...]
In non-acronym language it stands for the “Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills”. CSTARS is essentially the military’s solution to get Docs, nurses, and medics that are about to deploy some trauma training. There are a couple of sites where they send us, but the main one, and the one I find myself [...]
