UTHealth Houston EM Residents Take Center Stage at TCEP Research Forum
Texas College of Emergency Physicians is an organization composed of over 2050 emergency physicians in Texas. Their annual meeting entitled “TCEP re-CONNECT 2022” was held on April 22-23, 2022. Representing multiple residencies across the state, the in-person forum was hosted…
Dr. Samuel Prater Discusses Ways to Avoid Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
As temperatures fluctuate, cold weather, and the pursuit to stay warm bring concerns of potential carbon monoxide poisoning. Colorless and odorless carbon monoxide starves the brain of oxygen, leading to brain damage and even death. Dozens of Houston-area residents…
CARES Data Summary Report Infographic
The following infographic, developed in collaboration with the National Two-Step CPR, provides a visual overview of key demographics and survival characteristics in 2020 from the annual CARES Data Summary Report.
“Why CARES?” – Survivor Video Testimonial
Each year, approximately 350,000 persons in the United States experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) or sudden death; approximately 90% of persons who experience an OHCA die. Despite decades of research, median reported rates of survival to hospital discharge…
Dr. Paulina Sergot Publishes New Study in Stroke
Paulina Sergot, MD FACEP was lead author of a new article in Stroke titled “Portable Neuromonitoring Device Detects Large Vessel Occlusion in Suspected Acute Ischemic Stroke”. Dr. Sergot studied (and continues to study) a novel Somato-Sensory Evoked Potential device that…
New COVID-19 drug trial
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston remains at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19. Dr. Bentley J. Bobrow, Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, and Dr. Holger K. Eltzschig, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology…
American Heart Association Resuscitation Science Symposium
Texas Emergency Medicine Research Center investigators including Dr. Huebinger and co-authors Dr. Lesley Osborn, Dr. Henry Wang, Micah Panczyk, and Normandy Villa were selected from among thousands of scientific abstracts submitted to the American Heart Association Resuscitation Science Symposium, the…