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Falls Prevention on Midday Maryland

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 [...]

Falls Prevention Tips for Babies & Toddlers

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 [...]

Falls in the Elderly Population

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 [...]

Sports-related Eye Injury Prevention

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 [...]

Youth Sports Safety

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 [...]

Fun in the Sun!

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 [...]

Stop the Bleed: It’s In Our Blood

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 [...]

Stop the Bleed PSA from MDCOT

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. [...]