“That’s a testament to all the surgeons and the staff who contribute to the trauma program and are passionate about what they do.”ĭaniel Cox, M.D., chief of the UAB Trauma Service “Our care metrics were shown to be some of the best in the country, despite the volume and the acuity of the cases we’ve seen,” said Jeffrey Kerby, M.D., Ph.D., director of the UAB Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and the Brigham Family Endowed Professor in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. According to metrics from the National Trauma Quality Improvement Program from the ACS, in comparison to hospitals with similar trauma volumes and adjusting for the complexity of cases, UAB was in the top 10 percent for survival rates for patients with penetrating injuries, shock patients, elderly patients with blunt injuries and patients with multisystem blunt injuries. 2021 saw UAB’s highest survival rate ever, at 96 percent. The UAB Trauma Center’s rise in volume was accompanied by an increase in its level of care. They also saw a 27 percent increase over the past two years in the amount of severely injured patients admitted to the hospital.ĭaniel Cox, M.D., chief of the UAB Trauma Service and associate professor in the UAB Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, says in the past it has taken about eight years to see an increase of 1,000 trauma evaluations - but the trauma center reached that increase in the span of just a year in 2021. There were 4,568 trauma admissions - a 10 percent increase from 2020. In 2021, UAB saw a historic increase in volume, handling 6,466 trauma evaluations - a 17 percent increase over the last year and a 34 percent increase over the past two years. UAB is home to the state’s only American College of Surgeons-verified adult Level I Trauma Center, meaning it has met a rigorous standard and sees patients with the most severe traumatic injuries, like those from car crashes, gun violence and falls from across Alabama and neighboring states. Photography: Steve Wood2021 was a record year for the University of Alabama at Birmingham Trauma Center, with a record number of patients evaluated and admitted accompanied by the highest quality of care metrics the center has ever had. 96 percent of trauma patients who make it to UAB Hospital survive.
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