May 11 19:50
Trauma Centers Stretched Thin
Georgia’s proposed vehicle registration surcharge to fund trauma care seeks to address what many experts consider a growing national problem: insufficient medical capacity to deal with potential disasters, natural or otherwise.
Many hospital emergency and trauma facilities in the U.S. are routinely stretched so thin that they would have trouble treating the onslaught of victims a terrorist bombing might create, according to emergency-medicine experts and government and private studies.