Joining forces to enhance preparedness
Injury occurs every day and in every state of our nation.
Injury rates are NOT declining.
Injury does not discriminate between ages or social groups and the rates are not declining. The threat is magnified with the consideration of unexpected natural and man-made disasters. Inevitable terrorist activities in the U.S. will result in injuries not unlike those affecting our soldiers on the battlefields of the Middle East.
NTI is the premier grant making institution for translational trauma research at a national level. Our goal: to fund, develop, evaluate and rapidly implement revolutionary medical technologies that will improve clinical outcomes based on high quality, unbiased, translational research. There is no single center or institute devoted exclusively to trauma research. Funding for trauma research lags far behind when compared to funding for other diseases and hazards. Funding and developing a national research agenda for trauma is critical to the health of our children and our troops.
Our ultimate goal is to increase and improve survival and quality of life for victims of trauma and burn injury.
Our plan: Optimize each element of the trauma system, implement evidence-based practices, fund well-designed, large, prospective translational studies that have been designed to change practice, and, finally, use multiple funding sources.
The urgent need for trauma research and enhanced technologies is especially important right now as more than 32,000 soldiers have been injured and over 4500 have died on the battlefield in the current war. Injury kills more than 160,000 Americans and accounts for more than $400 billion in health care costs every year. Fully 2.5 million people visit emergency rooms every year after being injured. The National Trauma Institute (NTI) is uniquely situated to mobilize a rapid nationwide research effort.
Some of today's most urgent medical challenges include injury prevention and education, triage, hemorrhage control, resuscitation, orthopedics, burn care, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, critical care, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, rehabilitation and recovery, and outcomes research, with categories devoted to specific age groups within each subject area.
NTI translational research:
The process of applying ideas, insights, and discoveries generated through basic scientific inquiry to the treatment or prevention of human disease-will change clinical practice based. Research agendas are based on the establishment of coordinated large-scale multicenter research collaborations. Multicenter networks enable researchers from the diverse disciplines of trauma and emergency care research to assemble sufficiently large data sets to establish robust research findings. This also mean the quickest return on funding investments to the care of patients. More about NTI research.
NTI educational programs:
The NTI educational programs are directed at designing teaching programs to benefit both military and civilian medical communities. More about the NTI commitment to education.
SAVE THE DATE! 14th ANNUAL SAN ANTONIO TRAUMA SYMPOSIUM: August 25-27, 2008
