Providing compassionate, state-of-the-art patient care
The Stanford University Department of Emergency Medicine and the Marc and Laura Andreessen Emergency Department at Stanford provide a dedicated team of physicians, nurses and other health professionals to provide an extraordinary level of knowledge, skill and compassion to every patient we serve at Stanford University Hospital. The Marc and Laura Andreessen Emergency Department is prepared and equipped to provide comprehensive emergency care to patients of all ages in consultation with Stanford University Medical Center medical and surgical specialties to treat acute illnesses and injuries. An Emergency Medicine faculty physician is present 24 hours a day.
The American College of Surgeons has re-verified us as a Level I Adult & Pediatric Trauma Center - the highest level possible. Stanford University Medical Center is the only Trauma Center in our county with this designation and verification; and serves as a regional trauma center for northern and central California, as well as adjacent states. Another component of the Department of Emergency Medicine is the Life Flight Medical Transport Program which is available to transport critically ill or injured patients. It provides high-quality medical care during patient transport. Emergency critical care transports by ground vehicles, fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Life Flight utilizes both nurse-led and physician-led transport teams depending on the acuity of the patient.
We are also dedicated to the education of medical students and residents within the art of Emergency Medicine through close collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Our faculty specializes in providing superb education in particular within the sub-specialties of International Medicine, Wilderness Medicine, Ultrasound, Medical Simulation, Cardiovascular, Emergency Medical Services, and Social and Population Health.
Current Events
- Congratulations to Dr. Yoshi Mitarai and his team for the launch of the ECCP!
- Congratulations to Dr. Kenton Anderson! His abstract has been accepted as a poster presentation at the Resuscitation Science Symposium (ReSS) taking place at Scientific Sessions on November 11-13, 2017 in Anaheim, California.
- Abstract Title: Increased Hypovolemia Time Increases Mortality In A Swine Model Of Traumatic Pulseless Electrical Activity Cardiac Arrest - A Pilot Study.
- Congratulations to our bioinformatics postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Steven Cogill, for being selected as a fellow in the VA Big Data-Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP). The goal of this highly selective program is to train a new cadre of physical scientists to manipulate and analyze large-scale, multi- element patient data sets and to develop new algorithms and models complementing existing methodologies in patient-centered outcomes research. Dr. Cogill will work with clinician-scientist mentors from the Palo Alto VAMC and his academic mentor Dr. Sam Yang as part of the year-long training program to learn and apply VA informatics system for improving health outcomes. Congrats Steven! Click HERE!
- Read Dr. Mike Gisondi's "10 Tips for a Successful Job Search in Academic Medicine" on the CORD Blog.
- Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Newberry on the publication of the article "Call for Help" in the State Department's magazine
- Congratulations to Dr. Grant Lipman on his new article, "Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia, Hypernatremia, and Hydration Status in Multistage Ultramarathons" in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine.
- Congratulations to Dr. Grant Lipman on his new article, "Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia, Hypernatremia, and Hydration Status in Multistage Ultramarathons" in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine.
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