Sean Collins Archive — Page 2 of 2

Close-up stylized graphic displaying the words “COVID-19” and “VIRUS” over a dark digital interface with glowing lines, numbers, and circuit-like patterns.
April 2, 2020

Study aims to shield health workers from COVID-19 infection

VUMC is playing a key role in a national effort to establish a registry of U.S. health care workers and test whether the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) will protect them, their patients and their families from COVID-19.

By Bill Snyder
Doctor in a white coat standing in an operating room, with two illuminated surgical lights behind him and a covered operating table in the foreground.
March 5, 2020

Study shows heart failure mortality higher in low-income areas

Patients discharged from the hospital with acute heart failure have higher one-year mortality rates in regions with low income or greater income inequality, according to a new global study whose authors include Sean Collins, MD, MSc, professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt.

By Matt Batcheldor
Group of emergency care researchers, trauma surgery staff, and Nashville firefighters posing in front of a Nashville Fire Department ambulance marked “MEDIC 79.”
February 7, 2020

Study tracks how to best help patients breathe after trauma

By Craig Boerner
Doctor in a white coat standing in an operating room, with two illuminated surgical lights behind him and a covered operating table in the foreground.
January 16, 2020

Global effort tracks causes, treatment of acute heart failure

Patients in North America wait a median of three hours to receive intravenous therapy for acute heart failure, while no other region in the world waited for more than 1.2 hours, according to a global study whose lead author and co-primary investigator is Sean Collins, MD, MSc, professor of Emergency Medicine.

By Matt Batcheldor
Physician Sean Collins stands in a white coat holding a stethoscope in a busy emergency department, with medical staff and a patient in the background.
September 13, 2018

Research, patient care drive Emergency Medicine’s Collins

Sean Collins, MD, MSc, was no stranger to Vanderbilt University Medical Center when he was offered a faculty position in Emergency Medicine in 2011. A heart failure study that he was leading at the University of Cincinnati included faculty and patients from Vanderbilt.

By Nancy Humphrey
June 7, 2018

New center to explore best trauma care practices

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, through the Institute for Medicine and Public Health (IMPH), Center for Health Services Research and the Department of Emergency Medicine, has established a new Center for Emergency Care Research and Innovation (CERI) to help determine the best care for patients who experience trauma or require emergency services — even before they get to the hospital.

By Bill Snyder