A Cool Way To Save Dying Trauma Patients
Samuel Tisherman |
TEDxUMBaltimore
• November 2018
Trauma is the leading cause of death between the ages of 1 and 46, and can strike anyone at any time. Trauma surgeon Samuel Tisherman tells how the loss of a 23 year old stabbing victim led him to develop a groundbreaking approach - EPR, or Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation, to treat patients who cannot be helped by traditional means. Tisherman and his colleagues rapidly cool patients' bodies, then fix the bleeding that kills most trauma victims. Later, sometimes hours later, patients are resuscitated.