Talk:R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center

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I don't really understand the statement that this center "was the first facility to treat shock." Pretty much every hospital in the world can treat shock, perhaps not as effectively as a dedicated unit, but they've been doing it for years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.14.186 (talk) 04:41, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The statement is rather ambiguous. On the one hand, we have to keep in mind that this facility was one of the pioneering forces that led to the development of modern emergency medicine. Some of the basic things that hospitals do today were surprisingly not done at that time (a mere 30-40 years ago). However, I'm not sure if that sentence is supposed to say that it was the world's first facility to treat shock or the first facility specifically dedicated to treating shock. --Kbir1 (talk) 13:57, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is no source for the statement: "Today every major trauma center in the United States employs helicopters to transport trauma patients to the hospital." I would say it is inaccurate in that there are major Trauma centers that do not have dedicated helipads, such as Bellevue Hospital Center, New York,NY or Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago,IL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.206.101.2 (talk) 08:39, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]