WILL HELP FUTURE SURVIVORS BE
MORE IDS.
-- BE MORE AT EASE.
THE MEN AND WOMEN OF SHOCK
TRAUMA ARE RIGHT HERE IN
BALTIMORE AND THEY ARE THEIR
BEST IN THE MOST CRITICAL
SITUATIONS.
THE BEST IS WHAT THEY ARE
TRAINED SKILLED AND COMPOSED.
THEY HANDLE MULTIPLE PATIENTS A
KEY PEOPLE FROM THE BRINK OF
DEATH.
IT'S WHAT THEY SIGNED UP TO DO
BUT IT CAN BE DRAINING.
THE ROUTINE OF VIOLENCE CAN
TAKE ITS TOLL. YOU WILL NEVER
MAKE YOUR FLIGHT.
YOU WATCH THE DOCTOR DRAMAS
BUT OUR CENTER IN BALTIMORE
HOUSES THE REAL-LIFE PHYSICIANS
AND NURSES HELPING SOME OF THE
MOST CRITICALLY INJURED
PATIENTS.
THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY
DO THEY KNOW THEIR ROLES, THEY
ARE 18.
THEY TREAT MORE THAN 8000
PATIENTS A YEAR 96% OF WHOM
SURVIVED THEIR INJURIES.
SHOCK TRAUMA IS THE EPICENTER
FOR TRAUMA RESEARCH AND
TRAINING.
WE ARE THE ONLY CENTER OF
THIS TYPE IN THE COUNTRY.
10,000 SQUARE FEET IS DEVOTED
TO THE TRAINING AND
EDUCATION. WHILE THE STAFF
ARE SOME OF THE MOST ELITE,
THEY ARE STILL NOT IMMUNE FROM
THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL
FATIGUE. WE MANAGE THAT
THROUGH THE SCHEDULING
PROGRESS.
-- PROCESS.
WE LET THEM TAKE CERTAIN
AMOUNTS OF DAYS OFF.
WE USE STRESS REDUCTION
TECHNIQUES.
WE MIGHT HAVE PET THERAPY, WE
HAD A GROUP OF FILING IS'S
PLAY.
-- WE HAD A GROUP OF PEOPLE
PLAYING A VIOLIN.
21% OF PATIENTS TREATED THIS
YEAR WERE VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE.
THE STAFF PROVIDES TREATMENT
BUT THEY ALSO FOCUS ON
PREVENTION. THERE'S A LOT OF
EVIDENCE THAT IF WE CAN IMPACT
THE PATIENT AT THE TIME THAT
THEY WERE INJURED IN A FILING
CRIME AND GET THEM ENGAGE IN
OTHER ACTIVITIES, THEN THERE
RECIDIVISM RATE REDUCES.
ONE OF THE EFFECTIVE
PROGRAMS HAS BEEN THE TRAUMA
SURVIVORS NETWORK.
THEY GET VISITS FROM PEOPLE.
I WAS IN IN THIS AND -- I
WAS AN INNOCENT VICTIM OF A
SHOOTING.
I WAS THREE WEEKS FROM
GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL.
THOMAS CREDIT SHOCK TRAUMA
FOR SAVING HIS LIFE BUT IT WAS
HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO HELP
THEM GET THROUGH WHAT CAME
AFTER.
I HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO
FIGHT.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
DISRESPECTFUL FOR ME TO QUIT.
NOW THROUGH THE NETWORK HE
IS THERE FOR OTHERS. I AM
ALMOST ON SPEED BILE -- SPEED
DIAL NOW. I KNOW WHAT I WENT
THROUGH WHEN I WAS HERE.
I KNOW HOW EASY IT IS TO FALL
INTO A DEPRESSION AND ALLOW
YOUR TRAUMA TO GET THE BEST OF
YOU.
HE HAS BEEN THROUGH THE
EVENT AND WILL NEVER FORGET.
HE IS TRIED TO CHANGE THE SICK
ADVOCATES OF THE DAY AND THIS
YEAR WAS THE 12th -- THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT DAY AND
THIS YEAR WAS THE 12th
ANNIVERSARY.
I WAS GOING TO TRY TO INSPIRE
BY FUNDING A FIELD TRIP.
AND ALL-EXPENSES-PAID FIELD
TRIP THAT INCLUDED AC VENEER
FOR THE KIDS.