A vasospasm is when one of the arteries carrying oxygen-rich blood throughout your body suddenly contracts. (The word "vaso" means vessel, and "spasm" is a sudden, involuntary muscle squeeze.) This ...

What started as a national call to teach the public how to control life-threatening bleeding before help arrives is now a regular part of the work and outreach hospital Trauma Centers provide. At ...

Bleeding is the No. 1 preventable cause of death after injury. While injuries and death as a result of mass shootings and other large scale incidents receive a lot of attention, life threatening ...

An evolution of resuscitative, endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) technology used to manage bleeding in trauma patients could offer much-needed quicker and safer bleeding control in ...