On the September 22nd edition of Midday Maryland, host Elsa M. talked with Holley Farley - Nursing Coordinator for Clinical Quality at JHH; Emily Middleton - Safety Data Coordinator at [...]
According to the CDC, falls have been listed as the leading cause of childhood injury and non-fatal emergency department visits for the last 20 years! While every parent wants to [...]
Maryland, we have a problem... Falls pose a serious risk to public safety. Annually, since 2009, death secondary to a fall has increased approximately 3 percent nationally. Maryland also experienced [...]
Parenting is hard for a lot of reasons. I recall when I first started working in the field of child passenger safety in the mid-90s how challenging it was to [...]
Every year in the United States, about 30,000 sports-related eye injuries are treated in the Emergency Department. Most common causes of sports-related eye injuries are: Basketball Baseball Softball Airsoft rifles [...]
Although there a was huge drop in number of drivers on the road and the number of miles driven in 2020, new data from the Governor’s Highways Safety Association (GHSA) [...]
From baseball to swimming to golf, Maryland's list of youth sports goes on and on. As parents it is important to instill in children how to be as safe as [...]
With the school year ending and summer-time beginning, children will spend most of their day playing outside in the sun, and they could get sunburned. It's also the time of [...]
Two Generations of Bleeding Control EducatorsBy Arenal G. Haut, Fletcher B. Haut, and Elliott R. Haut, MD, PhD, FACS A simple, life-saving skill, like Stop [...]
Maryland Committee on Trauma created a Stop the Bleed PSA, for National Stop the Bleed Month, featuring chair Dr. David Efron and a traumatic accident survivor, who shares her story. [...]