For Your Health - Breakthroughs in Trauma
840 views · Published 11 July 2008 · 26:36 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: University of Central Florida · 2008 · Education
In this episode of For Your Health, breakthroughs in trauma care, including polyheme research that can be used by paramedics in the field in place of saline and new dissolvable bandage technology that controls bleeding and prevents infection are featured. Then, Dr. Deborah German, the dean of UCF's new medical school discusses the scholarship program for the inaugural class of medical students and what makes the UCF College of Medicine unique. Finally, new technologies in physical therapy are explored, including state of the art wheelchairs that can climb stairs and pressure mapping cushions that help determine what is needed for skin integrity.
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