Trauma Center anniversary

Faculty and staff gathered last week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Trauma Center’s debut in its current location on the 10th floor of Vanderbilt University Hospital.

New teleconference program helps give nurses more time to care for patients in person

Through Vanderbilt’s new virtual nurse program, certain tasks such as documentation can be done remotely via a teleconference in the patient’s room, giving nurses at the bedside more time to care for patients in person.

Mobile MRI locations announced

U.S. Army North Division executing dense urban terrain exercise using VUH helipad, Aug. 9 & 10

Stahlman NICU transitions to new resuscitation unit

Vanderbilt’s The Stahlman Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, one of the first modern neonatal intensive care units in the world, cared for its last baby and closed at the end of May.

Team refines protocol for emergency surgical event

A multidisciplinary team at Vanderbilt recently collaborated on a live simulation to develop a new protocol for a rare but high-stakes cardiothoracic event — when a team has to perform a re-sternotomy at a patient’s bedside as a lifesaving measure.