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Arthur Ney, MD

Arthur Ney, MD, is a member of the general surgery and renal transplantation and vascular access divisions. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School. He completed his residency training in surgery at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. He also practices at the Abbott Northwestern transplant clinic.

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Trauma and Burn

Advanced Trauma Life Support Training for Disaster Preparedness

HCMC will likely become a major hospital destination should a disaster or mass casualty event occur within the 7-county metro area or even within the region. This program would provide an educational background for the primary care physicians that will likely be called upon to help in the care of these patients.

Both the Emergency Medicine Department and Surgery Department are well prepared to manage the specific likely responses with respect to personnel and education. In reviewing likely needs should a mass casualty event occur additional physician personnel would be required to manage large numbers of causalities. An obvious resource within HCMC to provide the needed type of personnel is the members of the Family Practice Department and Internal Medicine Department, with a large group of physicians readily available onsite. These individuals will likely want to become involved in the care of injured patients in the event of a mass casualty and could certainly help in initial assessment hospitalized patients and in transporting more seriously injured patients within the institution.

Injured patients present a wide array of complex problems, and the ATLS student course presents a concise approach to assessing and managing these multiply injured patients. Material from the course is available from other resources, however, the ATLS material is in a concise, usable form that has become the universal language for caregivers of trauma patients. This is an optimal educational format for the introduction of these concepts to non-surgical arid non-emergency medicine specialists within HCMC.